The Dog-Heads

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1931

Production year

1931

Premiere

18 September 1931

Runtime

102 min

Category

film

Genre

drama, historical

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Psohlavci

Czech title

Psohlavci

English title

The Dog-Heads

Synopsis

The Chods who had guarded the Šumava border for as long as anyone could remember, were free people, answerable only to their king. After the Battle of Bílá hora, their land was sold to the imperial councillor Laminger who refused to recognise their rights. The Chods resist the statutory labour enforced upon them. The level-headed Jan Sladký, known as Kozina, urges his fellow-citizens to speak out for their rights at the Viennese court. Laminger's administrator uses violence to gain possession of the Chods' documents and he destroys them. The Viennese court rejects their cause. Kozina's mother, however, has hidden the two most important charters and a deputation led by Kozina sets out for Prague with them. The corrupt judge has the charters destroyed and since the Chods refuse to swear an oath of allegiance to the ruler, he has three of them, Kozina, Hrubý and Ecl, arrested. Back home, the Chods take part in a rebellion; some are shot and Kozina is sentenced to death. On the scaffold he challenges Laminger to face him on Judgement Day - exactly a year to the day. One year later Laminger is in the company of friends at a banquet but, during a ceremonial toast, he has a stroke and dies.

Cast

Bedřich Karen

Jan Sladký Kozina z Oujezda

Marie Grossová

Hančí Sladká, Kozinova žena

Radola Renský

Kozinův syn Pavlík

Leopolda Dostalová

Kozinova matka

Theodor Pištěk

Wolf Maxmilian Lamingen z Albenreuthu zvaný Lomikar/říšský dvorní rada Wolf Vilém Lamingen z Albenreuthu, Lamingenův otec

Božena Svobodová

Kateřina, Lamingerova žena

I. Pustinská

Lamingerova dcera Marie

Alexander Třebovský

Kryštof Hrubý, rychtář z Draženova

Josef Rovenský

rychtář Adam Ecl, řečený Čtverák, z Klenčí

Eman Fiala

dudák Jiskra Řehůřek

Josef Novák

Jiří Syka, rychtář z Oujezda

Josef Loskot

Matěj Přibek

Truda Grosslichtová

Manka, Přibkova dcera

Karel Schleichert

Přibkův otec

Ladislav Desenský

Němec z Medákova

Otto Zahrádka

Jakub Brychta z Postřekova

Václav Menger

Psůtka z Postřekova

Ada Karlovský

Jiří Peč z Chodova

Jan W. Speerger

rytmistr hrabě z Vrtby

Jan Sviták

správce Koš

Karel Jičínský

Václav Vojtěch, hrabě ze Šternberka

Rudolf Kadlec

hejtman plzeňského kraje Hora

Jaroslav Marvan

plukovník hrabě Stampach

Jan Marek

domažlický měšťan Matěj Just

Josef Graas

Šerlovský z Pocínovic

Ferry Mandaus

mladý Šerlovský

A. Šnobl

Pajdár z Pocínovic

Luigi Hofman

dvorský písař

Emil Dlesk

Lamingerův pochop

Ferdinand Jarkovský

písař ze zámku

Čeněk Šlégl

hlasatel rozsudku

Josef Oliak

advokát

Václav Žichovský

likvidátor u soudu

Vladimír Slavínský

vězeňský kněz

František Mádl

soudní biřic

Jan Richter

žalářník

Milka Balek-Brodská

host u Lamingera

Marie Oliaková

host u Lamingera

Jarmila Svatá

host u Lamingera

Anna Švarcová

host u Lamingera

Bohdan Lachman

vězeňský duchovní

Vladimír Beztahovský

chlapec s kočkou

Crew and creators

Assistant Director

František Jerhot

Based on

Alois Jirásek (Psohlavci – román)

Director of Photography

Václav Vích, Vladimír Kolátor

Costume Designer

J. M. Gottlieb

Film Editor

Antonín Zelenka

Sound Designer

Jaroslav Mottl

Consultant

JUC. C. J. Sladký (kroje)

Cooperation

Willy Ströminger (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Erno Košťál

Music Performed by

Pěvecký sbor Ipos (Music Conducted by Bořivoj Fromm)

Songs

Zelení hájové

Singer ženský sbor

Hajej, dítě, kolíbám tě

Song Composer Erno Košťál
Writer of Lyrics Václav Wasserman
Singer Marie Grossová

Hlavy vzhůru /Ať zhyne panský karabáč/

Song Composer Erno Košťál
Writer of Lyrics Václav Wasserman
Singer Pěvecký sbor Ipos

Production info

Original Title

Psohlavci

Czech Title

Psohlavci

English Title

The Dog-Heads

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

drama, historical

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1931

Production Year

1931

Production specifications

date of censorship 08/1931 (kulturně-výchovný)
date of censorship 5 May 1937 (kulturně-výchovný)
projection approval 11/1945 (neschváleno do distribuce)

Premiere

premiere 18 September 1931 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Alfa /4 týdny/, Praha)

Production

AB

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Oceanfilm

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

102 min

Original length in metres

2 910 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,19

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

Tobis – Klang

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech