The Progress Hotel
Category
filmGenre
étude, satireTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Hotel PokrokCzech title
Hotel PokrokEnglish title
The Progress HotelSynopsis
Two night visitors wake up the sleeping porter in a hotel and he very politely shows them into a room where there is even a dinner waiting. The porter falls back to sleep happily. But then a telephone call wakes him up and he realizes that the expected guest has just arrived and will be in the hotel before long. The porter wakes the two night visitors up and rudely tells them to leave the room. The angry men are unwillingly getting dressed. They find out from the chambermaid, who is bringing in the new dinner, that an inspector has been expected to arrive for the last three days. The porter brings the new guest in. But he is a tolerant man and there are three beds in the room so the other two guests can also stay. After the porter leaves, the guests introduce themselves. The first two visitors are agronomists, and the newcomer is a vet. It is obvious that he is also not the inspector. The men start laughing at the situation but they stop as they suddenly realize that they could be told to leave again. A female voice behind the door calms them down. It is the voice of the inspector, who has lived incognito in the hotel for three days already.
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Cast
Eman Fiala
vrátný v hotelu Pokrok
Jiří Sovák
agronom Kaňka, hotelový host
Vlastimil Brodský
agronom Novák, hotelový host
Josef Beyvl
zvěrolékař Řehoř, hotelový host
V. Herainová
pokojská
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Václav Wasserman (režie), Vladimír Novotný (kamera), Bohumil Šmída (produkce), Antonín Zelenka (střih)
Cooperation
A. Turečková
Music
Music Composed by
Production info
Original Title
Hotel Pokrok
Czech Title
Hotel Pokrok
English Title
The Progress Hotel
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude, satire
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1955
Production Year
1955
Production
Copyright Holders
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
11 min
Original length in metres
309 meters
Distribution carrier
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
