A Tailor's Tale
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1953Production year
1953Premiere
18 June 1954Runtime
39 minDirector
Jindřich PušCategory
filmGenre
short-storyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent filmmediumOriginal title
Krejčovská povídkaCzech title
Krejčovská povídkaEnglish title
A Tailor's TaleSynopsis
The widowed tailor Houska spends his days reminiscing about his wife and son who died during the Prague uprising in the 1945 year. Houska is now retired and he has even sold his sewing machine. He is still full of energy, however, and sitting on a bench gossiping with the other pensioners is not enough for him. Thus he joins the Moděva tailors' association. The young staff quickly grow fond of the humble and friendly Houska. The disagreeable and arrogant head Martinec gives the old tailoring master subordinate work to do. When the cutter Nejtek falls ill, Martinec is left without someone to cut the suits, since he himself is unable to do it, thus Houska is given the task. A group of young people decide to move across to newly opened workshops in Ostrava and they appoint Houska as their master. Houska is afraid to abandon his flat full of memories, and he refuses the offer. After some time he comes across a girl who lays down flowers near his son's memorial. He sees that his son's memorial will be well looked after and he decides to leave. At the Ostrava station he is enthusiastically welcomed by the young people from the factory - his new family.
Note
Jindřich Puš made this film as his graduation work for the VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow /USSR/). In distribution, the film was released with the title They Come from the Dark (1953, directed by Václav Gajer).
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Cast
Jaroslav Průcha
krejčí Václav Houska
Zdeněk Štěpánek
učitel Karel Havelka
Josef Beyvl
železničář František Černý
Josef Gruss
vedoucí dílny Jan Martinec zvaný Johnny
Miloš Nesvadba
krejčí Franta Dolejší
Josef Pehr
krejčí Jarda Mastník
Eman Fiala
krejčí Kučera
Karel Richter
krejčí Vašek Jernek
Hana Kavalírová
krejčová Marie Sklenářová
Josef Bartůněk
krejčovský dělník Vesecký
Jiřina Jirásková
krejčová Tonička Rousová
Čestmír Řanda
krejčí Slavomír Mlejnek
Jan Maška
krejčí Julek Kroupa
Jiří Sovák
střihač Nejtek
Marie Tomášová
děvče s kytičkou
Josef Příhoda
penzista na lavičce
Alois Dvorský
penzista na lavičce
Karel Kocourek
sluha Pánek
Bohuš Hradil
úředník ministerstva zahraničí
Antonín Soukup
hospodský
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Assistent Production Designer
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Ladislav Kalaš
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by Otakar Pařík)
Songs
Muzikanti, co děláte
Song Composer lidová píseň
Singer sbor
Konšelská /Sláva mu, on je pašák/
Song Composer Jaroslav Ježek
Writer of Lyrics Jan WerichJiří Voskovec
Singer sbor
A já sám vždycky sám
Song Composer lidová píseň
Singer Zdeněk Štěpánek
Production info
Original Title
Krejčovská povídka
Czech Title
Krejčovská povídka
English Title
A Tailor's Tale
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
short-story
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1953
Production Year
1953
Production specifications
start of filming 07/1953
the first film copy approved 30 December 1953
projection approval 18 March 1954
withdrawal from distribution 28 February 1964
Premiere
premiere 18 June 1954 /suitable for youths/ (kina Lucerna /2 týdny/, Armádní /1 týden/, Oko /1 týden/ a Kyjev /25. 6./, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
medium length film
Duration in minutes
39 min
Original length in metres
1 110 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
