Troubles of Mr Mareš

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1955

Production year

1955

Runtime

14 min

Director

Josef Vácha

Category

film

Genre

educational

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Trampoty pana Mareše

Czech title

Trampoty pana Mareše

English title

Troubles of Mr Mareš

Synopsis

People gather around a car accident, in which a horse-and-carriage and a car clashed. As always, their feeling is that the coachman is simply a victim of the situation and that everything is the fault of the car driver. Using special effects, the film chooses two representatives from the crowd - Mr Kareš, who defends the car driver and Mr Mareš, who defends the coachman. The two men get into a car and go for a ride in which they can observe the behaviour of people in traffic. At first, Mr Mareš is pointing at all the mistakes of the drivers. But then they reach the countryside and meet the coachmen who are drunk, driving on the wrong side of the road, overtaking and passing on turns, coming out of side-roads unexpectedly and the like. Mr Mareš falls asleep and he has a terrible dream. He becomes a drunk coach-man stopped by a policeman, who is actually Mr Kareš, and who blames him for all the mistakes he made. Mr Mareš is glad when the dream is over, and he admits that the coachmen are also responsible for traffic accidents.

Cast

Jiří Dufek (2)

Kareš

Miroslav Kopal

Radko Bača

Hynek Havelec

Antonín Rejzek

Crew and creators

Director

Josef Vácha

Screenstory

Josef Vácha

Screenplay

Josef Vácha

Director of Photography

Jaroslav Blažek

Production Manager

Jaroslav Houžvička

Cooperation

Dopravní inspektorát Hlavní správy VB Praha

Production info

Original Title

Trampoty pana Mareše

Czech Title

Trampoty pana Mareše

English Title

Troubles of Mr Mareš

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

educational

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1955

Production Year

1955

Production specifications

projection approval 29 December 1955

Premiere

premiere 01/1956 /suitable for youths/

Distribution slogan

no caption

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

14 min

Original length in metres

400 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech, commentary

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech