Eroticon
Typology
featureLenght
longCzech title
ErotikonRuntime
85 minCountry
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1929Production year
1929Premiere
12.07.1929Language version
Czech, GermanDirector
Gustav MachatýSynopsis
One rainy night a railway station guard offers shelter to an elegant traveller who has missed his train. When the guard is called away the traveller, George, is left alone with his daughter Andrea. The young man of the world makes a big impression on Andrea and that same night the girl succumbs to him. In the morning George leaves. After some time Andrea discovers that she is expecting a baby. George continues to live his carefree life in the city and spends most of his time with the married, Mrs Gilda. When he receives a letter from Andrea saying that she is pregnant, he sends her some money. Andrea leaves for the city to give birth in secret. The child is still-born, however. Andrea later marries a man who has saved her from an attempted rape on a deserted road. She gives him her own blood for a necessary tranfusion after an injury which the assailant had caused. One day, while in the company of her husband, she meets George who tries to seduce her again. Soon the old longing awakens in her and she leaves her husband to go away with George. Gilda's husband comes to George's flat and picks a quarrel with George over his wife. During this scene Andrea bitterly realises that George has otherlovers. In the fit of jealousy Gilda's husband shoots George Andrea returns to her husband whose love she now values much more.
Note
The première was held in Karlovy Vary. Its Prague première took place on the 3rd of January 1930. It was shown again in 1933 in its Czech and German sound versions with the music of Erno Košťál. Both versions were substantially cut. In the NFA is preserved a copy of the German version (K-N 1860,0 m), a copy of the Czech version on the video.
During the years 1993 – 1995 the film was reconstructed by the National Film Archive.
Photos
Cast
Karel Schleichert
hlídač na dráze
Ita Rina
hlídačova dcera Andrea
Olaf Fjord
svůdce Georg Sydney
Theodor Pištěk
Hilbert
Charlotte Susa
Hilbertova žena Gilda
Luigi Serventi
Jean, Andrein manžel
L. H. Struna
povozník
Milka Balek-Brodská
porodní bába
Bohumil Kovář
železničář
Beda Saxl
majitel krejčovského salonu
Vladimír Slavínský
krejčí
Bronislava Livia
návštěvnice salonu krásy
Václav Žichovský
majitel obchodu s klavíry
Jiří Hron
muž na poště
Willy Rösner
rváč v hospodě
Dubbing
Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Gustav Machatý, Otto Rádl (dialogy ozvučení 1933), Emanuel Železný (dialogy ozvučení 1933), Erich Eisner (dialogy ozvučení 1933 německá mutace)
Camera
Production Designer
Film Editor
E. B. White (úprava a montáž ozvučení 1933)
Sound Designer
Otto Németh (ozvučení 1933)
Music
Music Composed by
Erno Košťál (ozvučení 1933), Jan Klusák (rekonstrukce 1994–1995)
Songwriter
Erno Košťál (ozvučení 1933)
Writer of Lyrics
Otto Rádl (ozvučení 1933), Emanuel Železný (ozvučení 1933), Erich Eisner (ozvučení 1933 německá mutace)
Singer
Jára Pospíšil (ozvučení 1933)
Production info
Original Title
Erotikon
English Title
Eroticon
Parallel Title
Das Parfum einer Frau
Category
Film
Typology
feature
Genre
drama, psychological
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1929
Production Year
1929
Premiere
12.07.1929
Distribution slogan
The world famous, greatest film of the silent era of Czech cinematography.
Production
Geem-Film, Slaviafilm (ozvučení 1933)
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Slaviafilm (původní 1929 a obnovená 1933 pro Čechy), Kinofilm Brno (obnovená 1933 pro Moravu, Slezsko a Slovensko), Ústřední půjčovna filmů (obnovená 1968 pro filmové kluby), Asociace českých filmových klubů (obnovená 2011 /Projekt 100–2011/; monopol do 31.5.2011)
Technical info
Lenght
long
Runtime
85 min
Versions
Czech, German
Subtitles
Czech Intertitles
Awards
Vítěz
Event: Zlatá medaile časopisu Filmový kurýr
1930
Praha / Czechoslovakia