Friday Morning
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1957Production year
1957Premiere
23 August 1957Runtime
33 minDirector
Zdeněk PodskalskýCategory
filmGenre
narrativeTypology
featuretheatrical distributionmediumOriginal title
V pátek ránoCzech title
V pátek ránoEnglish title
Friday MorningWorking title
Její chlapciSynopsis
An alarm clock goes off in the Malásek family home at half past four in the morning. The mother Slávka gets up, finishes her toilet, and goes to work after setting out clean shirts for her husband and three sons and letting their Alsatian dog Ajax out in the garden. At half past five, the father Karel gets up and sends Ajax to get milk and bread from the shop. The father shaves, has breakfast and goes to work. At half past six the oldest son Tomáš wakes up. He prepares breakfast for his brothers and plays with his father's shaving brush for a while. After he leaves, Pavlík and Milan get up as well. Pavlík tries to turn off the dripping water tap in the bathroom but the tap gets stuck and in a little while water is overflowing from the bath-tub. At first the boys ask their parents for help. They call their mother at work but at the end a police officer helps them and sends for a plumber. The parents come home when the danger is already over and they are so overjoyed at their children's independence that they forget about their banal quarrel from the day before.
Note
The film was distributed to Czech cinemas along with the feature film The Good Soldier Švejk (1956) by Karel Steklý.
Photos
Cast
Jarmila Smejkalová
telefonistka Slávka Malásková
Vlastimil Brodský
laborant Karel, Slávčin manžel
Milan Tomášek
Tomáš, syn Maláskových
Petr Krajča
Milan, mladší syn Maláskových
Zbyněk Tenkrát
Pavlík, nejmladší syn Maláskových
Marcela Moravcová
laborantka Jarmila
Radovan Lukavský
údržbář Kohout
pes Ajax
vlčák
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Production info
Original Title
V pátek ráno
Czech Title
V pátek ráno
English Title
Friday Morning
Working Title
Její chlapci
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
narrative
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1957
Production Year
1957
Production specifications
projection approval 05/1957
Premiere
premiere 23 August 1957 /suitable for youths/ (kina Blaník /6 týdnů/, Arbes /1 týden/, Dukla /1 týden/, Oko /1 týden/, Revoluce /1 týden/, Aero /1 týden/, Bystrica /1 týden/, Mír /1 týden/, Odboj /1 týden/, Svornost /1 týden/, Vzlet /1 týden/ a Radost /1 týden od 30. 8./, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Tvůrčí skupina Šebor – Kratochvíl, Miloš V. Kratochvíl (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Jiří Šebor (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
medium length film
Duration in minutes
33 min
Original length in metres
943 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
