Don't Take Shelter When It Rains!

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1962

Production year

1961

Premiere

3 August 1962

Runtime

83 min

Category

film

Genre

drama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Neschovávejte se, když prší

Czech title

Neschovávejte se, když prší

English title

Don't Take Shelter When It Rains!

Working title

Šaty ze silonu / Kukačko kolikpak let?

Synopsis

Eliška Krejčová enthusiastically welcomes the news that she has been hired as a schoolteacher. She does not mind at all that she has been sent to the small village of Lučiny, somewhere near the border. Hora, the local parish priest, is the first whom Eliška meets on her way from the railway station. This atypical priest rides a motorcycle and equips his church with speakers and a television antennae mounted on the church tower, making him the only one in the village who can receive TV. Hora thus attracts many young people to the church. Resolute Eliška, however, decides to get yet more culture to Lučiny. With the help of soldiers from the nearby garrison, she establishes a cinema in the village, arranges the construction of a TV-signal amplifier and organizes a dance party. Young people have skiped going to the church for the first time. Eliška gradually meets all the villagers and her rather hasty evaluation of people causes her several misunderstandings. Driver's mate František Novák was originally a goldsmith, but his naiveté got him involved in the black market trade in dental gold and resulted in a one-year probation. He falls in love with Eliška at first sight and she returns his feelings, without having the slightest idea about his past. František wants to follow the straight and narrow, but driver Emil pushes him again to go astray. He steals cement and buys František's silence by lending him money to buy a motorcycle. When Eliška learns about František's probation, his insincerity makes her split with him. Eventually, however, the two young people explain everything to each other and reconcile.

Cast

Jaroslava Tvrzníková

učitelka Eliška Krejčová

Josef Abrhám

závozník František Novák

Bohumil Šmída

řidič Emil Holubář

Ilja Prachař

správce státní farmy Josef Petrák

Jaroslav Rozsíval

zemědělský dělník Holeček

Miroslav Horníček

farář Tadeáš Hora

Eva Svobodová

Holečkova tchyně

Josef Kozák

Voice by Jaromír Spal
tesař Mareček, předseda MNV

Oldřich Lukeš

okresní tajemník KSČ

Jindřich Pulec

Vojtěch, Holečkův syn

Jiří Procházka (2)

traktorista

Miloslav Šimek

voják s brýlemi

Juraj Herz

voják-radista

Marcela Martínková

Zdena, Holečkova žena

Helena Růžičková

žena na zábavě

Zdeněk Braunschläger

vedoucí brigády

Oldřich Hoblík

dirigent vojenského orchestru

Karel Pavlík

muž v hostinci

Miloš Zavadil

tanečník

Jiří Němeček

polír na stavbě

Oskar Hák

traktorista

Emanuel Kovařík

muž ze stavby

Milan Kindl

vesničan

Jaroslav Kladrubský

vesničan

Renée Lavecká

brigádnice

Magdalena Rachlíková

brigádnice

K. Ratajová

brigádnice

D. Jeřábková

brigádnice

Luďa Marešová

vesničanka

Ela Poznerová

hubatá žena

Mirko Musil

stranický referent

M. Bogušovský

voják, člen orchestru

Z. Cejnková

školačka

E. Kubátová

školačka

Š. Čemusová

školačka

Karel Michálek

školák

Alois Čuřík

děda

A. Antošová

babka

K. Hálová

Holečkova dcera

Crew and creators

Second Unit Director

Jiří Hartman

Assistant Director

Juraj Herz

Continuity

Helena Pokorná

Director of Photography

Jan Čuřík

Second Unit Photography

Jan Němeček

Camera Operator

František Uldrich

Production Designer

Oldřich Bosák

Assistent Production Designer

Jan Kňákal

Costume Designer

Karel Postřehovský

Film Editor

Miroslav Hájek

Assistant Film Editor

Jitka Šulcová

Sound Designer

Ladislav Hausdorf

Assistant Sound Designer

Václav Kliegel

Production Manager

Jiří Pokorný

Unit Production Manager

Miloš Bergl, Vlasta Synkulová

Unit Production Manager

Lubomír Novotný, Renée Lavecká

Cooperation

Jiřina Matiasková (klapka), Karel Šebík (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Jiří Sternwald

Selected Music

Bedřich Smetana (Má vlast /Vltava/)

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Karla Vlacha (Music Conducted by Karel Vlach)

Production info

Original Title

Neschovávejte se, když prší

Czech Title

Neschovávejte se, když prší

English Title

Don't Take Shelter When It Rains!

Working Title

Šaty ze silonu / Kukačko kolikpak let?

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

drama

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1962

Production Year

1961

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 23 March 1961
technical Screenplay approved 17 June 1961
start of filming 3 July 1961
end of filming 6 December 1961
projection approval 6 May 1962

Premiere

preview 27 July 1962 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 3 August 1962 /suitable for youths/ (kina Metro /2 týdny/, Revoluce /1 týden/, Mír /1 týden od 10. 8./, Odboj /1 týden od 17. 8./ a Radost /1 týden od 17. 8./, Praha)
premiere 3 August 1962 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Studio

Hostivař

Creative Group

Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Fikar, Ladislav Fikar (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

83 min

Original length in metres

2 370 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