The Confession Box

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1928

Production year

1928

Premiere

12 April 1929

Runtime

39 min

Category

film

Genre

drama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionmedium

Original title

Zpovědnice

Czech title

Zpovědnice

English title

The Confession Box

Synopsis

A film director is finishing his screenplay. The actors enter the garden of his villa. The first page of the script bears the title: The Confession Box. Two friends, an artist and a writer are walking in the cloisters of a monastery. The writer wants to demonstrate to his friend the mystery of the cloister echoes. In so doing he overhears part of a confession given by a woman and he relises that the voice is his wife's as she confesses to infidelity. The friends leave the monastery, followed by a mysterious woman in a veil. The writer goes into his bedroom - a man's shape is outlined under the bedclothes. He tells his wife that he had heard her confession. He commands that the unknown man resolve the situation with honour... A shot rings out and the woman goes back into the bed chamber. The dead man is his friend, the artist. The writer assures his wife that he was only trying out his new Browning, he gives the key of the bedroom to the valet and he desparts with his wife. - The actors are sitting round a table in the director's garden reading the end of the screenplay.

Note

The film was made on location at the villas of Isida Pruszinská and Dr Mellan.

Cast

Pavel Rón

spisovatel Antonio

Vilém Vraný

kněz

K. O. Randa

starý sluha

Karel Freytag

mladší sluha

Crew and creators

Based on

Christian Winther (Zpovědnice /Skriftestolen/ – novela)

Screenplay

Norbert Mašek

Director of Photography

Jaroslav Švalb

Set Designer

Norbert Mašek

Production info

Original Title

Zpovědnice

Czech Title

Zpovědnice

English Title

The Confession Box

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

drama

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1928

Production Year

1928

Production specifications

date of censorship 9 April 1929

Premiere

premiere 12 April 1929 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Central, Praha)

Production

Normafilm

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Gea-Film

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

39 min

Original length in metres

1 100 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