The Blue Diamond

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1927

Production year

1927

Premiere

neproběhla

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Film state

partially realised project

Original title

Modrý démant

Czech title

Modrý démant

English title

The Blue Diamond

Summary

Unfinished film.

Synopsis

A detective film comedy full of strange coincidences. Information about the contents has not survived.

Note

Filming was stopped in 1927 due to a lack of financial capital by Karel Špelina and the film's real financier, grocer M. Paroubková. The company AB seized the film negative to cover its claim. The whole dispute ended in court in 1928. The title was never completed, although it was still being considered in 1930. The scenes shot were those in Alhambra Nightclub, the Bar Pigalle and the Hotel Steiner in Old Town, predominant by the dance scenes, the spiritual seance and the artists' rehearsals. Shots of Ferenc Futurista, Jára Kohout and Karel Noll playing drunk men at the Bar Pigalle have also survived.

Cast

Bronislava Livia

tanečnice v nočním podniku

L. H. Struna

přítel tanečnice

Jára Kohout

detektivův pomocník

Karel Noll

spiritista

Eman Fiala

účastník spiritistické seance

Jaroslav Marvan

číšník

Jaro Hykman

mladík, zamilovaný do tanečnice

M. Paroubková

dcera

Josef Šváb-Malostranský

účastník spiritistické seance

Jan Richter

účastník spiritistické seance

Emilie Nitschová

účastnice spiritistické seance

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Bedřich Bělohlávek

Director of Photography

Josef Bulánek

Production info

Original Title

Modrý démant

Czech Title

Modrý démant

English Title

The Blue Diamond

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Film state

partially realised project

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1927

Production Year

1927

Production specifications

date of censorship nepředloženo cenzuře

Premiere

premiere neproběhla

Production

Karel Špelina

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Chicago-Film

Technical info

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