CALAMITY
Czechoslovakia / 1981 / 96 min. / Colour
tribute to Věra Chytilová
written by: JOSEF ŠILHAVÝ
screenplay: JOSEF ŠILHAVÝ, VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
directed by: VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
dir. of photography: IVAN ŠLAPETA
music: LACO DÉCZI
editor: JIŘÍ BROŽEK
sound: JIŘÍ KŘÍŽ
dramaturgy: PAVEL HAJNÝ
art director: BOHUMIL POKORNÝ
costume designer: HELENA ANÝŽOVÁ
production: FILMOVÉ STUDIO BARRANDOV - DS MIROSLAVA HLADKÉHO
executive producer: VLADIMÍR VOJTA
cast: BOLESLAV POLÍVKA, DAGMAR BLÁHOVÁ, JANA SYNKOVÁ, MARIE PAVLÍČKOVÁ, JAROSLAVA KRETSCHMEROVÁ, ZDENĚK SVĚRÁK, VÁCLAV ŠVORC, ANTONÍN KUBÁLEK, BRONISLAV POLOCZEK, VÁCLAV HELŠUS.
Jan Dostál drops out of university and applies for a job as an engine-driver. Although by nature not suited to a uniform, he has to negotiate numerous official and unofficial pitfalls. The first includes human and institutional moral degeneracy. The second includes the machinations of three women (a greedy doctor, an ambitious sportswoman and a fervent railway guard) who compete for him with varying degrees of tenderness and aggression. This is all very alarming, but the real calamity comes on Dostál's first journey with a mountain engine, during which the train is hit by an avalanche. Only then do people's real characters make themselves known.
Screening
| Date | Time | Hall |
|---|---|---|
| 20.04.2009 | 16:30 | Meštanská Beseda - malý sál/small hall |
