Will the Gang Betray Him?

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1957

Production year

1957

Premiere

29 November 1957

Runtime

19 min

Category

film

Genre

satire

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Parta nezradí...?

Czech title

Parta nezradí...?

English title

Will the Gang Betray Him?

Working title

Zlatá mládež

Synopsis

A young man is found wounded after a car crash. With his arm in plaster he sits in the interrogation room being questioned by a police major. The young man is the lathe-worker Tony Vacek. A bad domestic situation had driven him towards a gang of layabouts. The gang members will do anything for money. Tony is the only one with a driving licence and so is forced to take the others to a cottage which they intend to burgle. They are discovered and Tony crashes the car during their escape. His gang "friends" leave him wounded and unconscious in the car and run off. The interrogator, after discovering all the facts, asks his colleagues from the factory, members of the Socialist Youth Movement, to give him a character reference. The happy young man is then relieved to hear in court that he has been let off with a conditional sentence.

Cast

Rudolf Jelínek

soustružník Tony Vacek

Zdeněk Hodr

major SNB

Jiří Lír

šéf party Holeček

Ludmila Roubíková

matka Vacková

Zuzana Dubská

Tonyho sestra Věra

Zlata Adamová

členka party Lilinka

Stanislav Junek

člen party

Jaroslav Kepka

člen party

Antonín Hardt

člen party

Jiří Suk

soudce

Antonín Beba

dělník Mirek

Oldřich Kříž

muž v jídelně

Ladislav Ryšlink

Gustav Mar

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Hanuš Burger

Director of Photography

Svatopluk Malý

Production Designer

arch. Jaroslav Čermák

Film Editor

Josef Pejsar

Sound Designer

Emil Poledník

Production Manager

Josef Soukup

Consultant

kpt. Zdeněk Skácel, Dr. Blanka Pašková

Music

Music Composed by

Karel Reiner

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)

Production info

Original Title

Parta nezradí...?

Czech Title

Parta nezradí...?

English Title

Will the Gang Betray Him?

Working Title

Zlatá mládež

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

satire

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1957

Production Year

1957

Production specifications

projection approval 1957

Premiere

premiere 29 November 1957 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Blaník /4 týdny/, Kyjev /1 týden/, Radost /1 týden od 13. 12./ a Revoluce /1 týden od 20. 12./, Praha)

Distribution slogan

no caption

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

19 min

Original length in metres

536 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