A Kiss at the Stadium

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1947

Production year

1947

Premiere

6 February 1948

Runtime

79 min

Director

Martin Frič

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Polibek ze stadionu

Czech title

Polibek ze stadionu

English title

A Kiss at the Stadium

Working title

Zavinil to Mašlonka?

Synopsis

Austria's win over Sweden at the world ice-hockey championships in Prague in 1947 helps Czechoslovakia win the title of World Champion. After the final match, the spectators break out in huge cheers and the dentist Jan Vaněček finds himself kissed by a strange thrilled girl. The kiss is captured on film and Vaněček's fiancée Lída sees it during a film newsreel screening. She is furious with him and no longer wants to see him. Thus Vaněček asks his friend Oldřich for help in getting back with Lída. He himself starts looking for the girl from the stadium in order to prove his innocence to Lída. After various failures he discovers that the girl's name is Věra and that she is a shop assistant in a department store. Věra immediately agrees to meet up with Lída. Oldřich sets up the meeting on several occasions but, for various reasons, it never takes place. So Vaněček continues to meet Věra on his own and they fall in love. And since Lída and Oldřich have meanwhile got to know each other better, the whole affair ends happily with a kiss.

Cast

Zdeněk Dítě

zubař MUDr. Jan Vaněček

Jana Dítětová

prodavačka Věra Fabiánová

Svatopluk Beneš

kavárník Oldřich Janota

Eman Fiala

účetní Malík

Irena Bernátová

Lída Jonášová, Vaněčkova snoubenka

Marie Grossová

Ema Jonášová, Lídina matka

Oldřich Dědek

vedoucí obchodu Kubiš

Josef Laufer

reportér

Jára Kohout

pacient u zubaře

Milada Spálená

prodavačka Květa

Ella Nollová

bytná Oldřicha Janoty

Bohuš Hradil

policejní komisař

Taťána Vavřincová

zdravotní sestra u zubaře

Jindřich Heidelberg

pacient u zubaře

Antonín Jirsa

stěhovák

Ladislav Sedláček

vrchní číšník

Jiří Pravda

strážník

Jindřich Doležal

uvaděč v kině

Ema Kreutzerová

bytná u Jonášových

Crew and creators

Director

Martin Frič

Second Unit Director

Vladimír Hladký

Director of Photography

Jan Roth

Second Unit Photography

Vladimír Novotný

Camera Operator

Josef Pechar

Production Designer

Štěpán Kopecký

Assistent Production Designer

Bohuslav Kulič

Set Designer

Prokop Pěkný

Make-Up Artist

Ladislav Bacílek

Film Editor

Jan Kohout

Sound Designer

Miloslav Hůrka

Production Manager

Eduard Šimáček

Unit Production Manager

Bohuslav Kubásek

Cooperation

Václav Malý (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Eman Fiala, Jiří Fiala

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac)

Production info

Original Title

Polibek ze stadionu

Czech Title

Polibek ze stadionu

English Title

A Kiss at the Stadium

Working Title

Zavinil to Mašlonka?

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1947

Production Year

1947

Production specifications

start of filming 10/1947
date of censorship 28 January 1948 (konec povolení k promítání 28. 1. 1953)
withdrawal from distribution 15 December 1950

Premiere

premiere 6 February 1948 /suitable for youths/ (kina Letka /4 týdny/, Lucerna /2 týdny/ a Moskva /3 týdny/, Praha)

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Studio

Hostivař

Creative Group

III. výrobní skupina Frič – Reimann, Martin Frič (umělecký šéf III. výrobní skupiny), Zdeněk Reimann (produkční šéf III. výrobní skupiny)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

79 min

Original length in metres

2 249 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech

Awards

Vítěz

Event: Aprobační komise pro schvalování českých filmů

1948
Praha / Czechoslovakia

Vítěz

Event: Aprobační komise pro schvalování českých filmů

1948
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Jiří Fiala

Vítěz

Event: Aprobační komise pro schvalování českých filmů

1948
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Martin Frič

Vítěz

Event: Aprobační komise pro schvalování českých filmů

1948
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Eman Fiala