The Sweet Spring Games
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featuretheatrical distributionshortOriginal title
Sladké jarní hryCzech title
Sladké jarní hryEnglish title
The Sweet Spring GamesSynopsis
A bearded stocky man finishes his snack at his working table amidst a blossoming orchard. He then casts several plaster busts representing a bald and ugly man, accompanied by an endlessly repeated and worn-out song from a tape recorder. Something in the air then begins to provoke giggling laughter. A nose of one of the busts receives color, other ones get their hair painted or their eye bruised. A young girl appears in the orchard. One apple tree blossom hastily matures into a red apple. The girl disappears, but keeps reappearing. The plaster heads’ producer finds a bust of a girl in a shed. A ceramic still-life turns into a wooden one. The girl bites into an apple and then throws the fruit at the man. The man trustfully takes a bite of it, too, but his teeth painfully hit ceramics. The man gradually turns to a plaster bust which begins drowning in sherds and eventually sunks into them. An automobile which regularly distributes ceramic products leaves, still unloaded.
Note
The film contains a combination of performed and animated sequences.
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Cast
Crew and creators
Director
Screenplay
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Art Director
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Animation
Production Manager
Cooperation
Zoja Mikotová, Vladimír Novosad, Soňa Toulcová, Jaroslav Bezděk, Pavla Boučková
Music
Music Composed by
Songs
Poupata
Song Composer František Janeček
Writer of Lyrics Jaroslav Machek
Singer Michal David
Production info
Original Title
Sladké jarní hry
Czech Title
Sladké jarní hry
English Title
The Sweet Spring Games
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
étude
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1990
Production Year
1989
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
20 min
Original length in metres
571 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Animation technique
puppet, combined (technique), feature
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
