The Time of Rowanberries
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1963Production year
1963Premiere
27 December 1963Runtime
32 minDirector
Miroslav SobotaCategory
filmGenre
poeticTypology
featuretheatrical distributionmediumOriginal title
Čas jeřabinCzech title
Čas jeřabinEnglish title
The Time of RowanberriesSynopsis
It is shortly before Christmas and František Valda returns to his native village to visit his mother. The landscape is covered with snow, and when František spots a man lying by the road, immediately stops his car. The man is very drunk and would certainly freeze to death without help. František puts him on his feet and tries to tell about him the people in the nearby house. Its inhabitants, however, do not even open the door. František returns to the man and loads him into his car. The unknown does not respond to any questions nor sympathetic words about loneliness. František therefore drops him off by a wooden hut on a railway station. The mother welcomes and hosts her son but he cannot but think about the horrible frost outside all the time. He returns to the hut but there is no one there any more. František stops by in the local pub and asks his childhood friend publican Arnošt for a flash lamp. At the very moment, the unknown man steps into the local with František passing utterly unnoticed. He seems to be in much better shape than before. He, however, again disappears in the dark. František calms down and returns home to his mother.
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Cast
Vlastimil Brodský
František Valda
Radoslav Brzobohatý
opilý muž
Jarmila Kurandová
Františkova matka
Růžena Merunková
sousedka Květa
Oldřich Velen
hostinský Arnošt Kouba
Vladimír Huber
Voice by Vladimír Hlavatý
železničář
František Ocman
kluk s bruslemi
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Milan Kadlec, Irena Klausová
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Set Designer
Ladislav Rada, Ivan Síbrt
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Vlasta Kolbasová, Josef Mojžíš
Music
Music Composed by
archivní
Selected Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Vánoční tanec), Ronald Binge (Alžbětinská serenáda)
Production info
Original Title
Čas jeřabin
Czech Title
Čas jeřabin
English Title
The Time of Rowanberries
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
poetic
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1963
Production Year
1963
Production specifications
literary Screenplay approved 4 December 1962
technical Screenplay approved 16 January 1963
start of filming 6 February 1963
end of filming 15 March 1963
projection approval 8 October 1963
Premiere
preview 20 December 1963 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 27 December 1963 /suitable for youths/ (kina Pasáž /4 týdny/, Mír /1 týden/, Praha /1 týden/, Bystrica /1 týden od 3. 1. 1964/, Veletrhy /1 týden od 10. 1. 1964/ a Vzlet /1 týden od 17. 1. 1964/, Praha)
premiere 27 December 1963 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Distribution slogan
no caption
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Tvůrčí skupina Novotný – Kubala, Bedřich Kubala (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Ladislav Novotný (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
medium length film
Duration in minutes
32 min
Original length in metres
920 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
