The Girl from the Silver Frontier

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1921

Production year

1921

Premiere

3 June 1921

Runtime

85 min

Category

film

Genre

adventure

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Děvče ze Stříbrné Hranice

Czech title

Děvče ze Stříbrné Hranice

English title

The Girl from the Silver Frontier

Synopsis

Sylva Baranová and captain of the border guards Roman Degar meet for the first time in a park and they arrange to see each other again. Sylva is visited by her uncle and guardian, Jindřich Baran, a hotelier from Krkonoše, who wants to take her away with him to the Silver Frontier. Captain Degar by chance is also transferred to the Silver Frontier to help break up a gang of smugglers. He meets with Sylva once more in her uncle's mountain hotel. Sylva's uncle is in league with the smugglers and is told to do away with Degar. The captain`s cover is betrayed and Degar sets out for the forest to hunt down the smugglers. Baran uses Sylva as a trap to catch Degar but the latter manages to escape, and it is Baran who is wounded. Sylva discovers her uncle`s connection with the smugglers and she goes off into the mountains to warn her beloved Degar. During a wild chase the captain is seized by the smugglers, Sylva is shot but, at the last minute, the frontier guards arrive at the scene and overcome the band of smugglers. Sylva and Degar are saved but the hotelier Baran dies from his wounds.

Cast

Zdena Kavková

Sylva Baranová

Přemysl Pražský

hoteliér Jindřich Baran, Sylviin strýc/starý mládenec

Vladimír Slavínský

kapitán hraničářů Roman Degar

Anna Mašková-Bendlová

Degarova sestřenice Jana Májová

Eduard Šimáček

vousatý pašerák/starý mládenec

Ferdinand Fiala

starý mládenec Fialka

Antonín Frič

starý mládenec Kváček

Přemysl Pražský

starý mládenec

Bonda Szynglarski

starý mládenec Prasklý

Eduard Šimáček

starý mládenec Máček

Jan W. Speerger

Sylviin nápadník v Praze

Max Hermann

Sylviin nápadník

Crew and creators

Director of Photography

Svatopluk Innemann

Production Designer

Ferdinand Fiala, Fritz Kraenke

Production info

Original Title

Děvče ze Stříbrné Hranice

Czech Title

Děvče ze Stříbrné Hranice

English Title

The Girl from the Silver Frontier

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

adventure

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1921

Production Year

1921

Production specifications

date of censorship 25 May 1921
date of censorship 04/1933 (konec povolení k promítání 1938)

Premiere

premiere 3 June 1921 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Lucerna, Alma a Lido bio, Praha)

Production

Poja Film

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

American

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

85 min

Original length in metres

2 400 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33

Colour

black & white

Sound

silent

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech