The marriage of Jaroslav and Marie, parents of two schoolchildren, seems calm and orderly. Marie, a housewife, can however sense that her husband has become estranged from her and all the warmth and love have faded out of their relationship. Marie suspects that there is an affair with another woman behind her husband's evening business meetings but does not want to know the truth, hoping that time will heal everything. When their children, Hanka and Jirka, receive their own keys to the apartment, the family's Sunday trips and cinema visits are instantly over. Marie is not sure whether to envy her childless and single friend Věra her independent life. Věra's brother Jenda is fond of Marie and wants to develop a closer relationship with her. Marie accepts his wooing only when Jaroslav brings the situation to a head and moves away from home. The children miss their father and Marie keeps apologizing for his absence claiming they are business trips. Once Jaroslav comes home to pick up his clothes, but is even unable to find time for his son. Marie decides to get divorced, and although Jenda takes her with her children for trips, she is taken by surprise when he offers to marry her. She, however refuses the offer, since she has decided to get a job and stand on her own feet first. As a symbol of her new life, she also gets a different, less uptight haircut.
Marie
Jaroslav, Mariin manžel, provozář v továrně
Jenda
Věra, Jendova sestra, Mariina přítelkyně
Hanka, dcera Marie a Jaroslava
Jirka, syn Marie a Jaroslava
inženýr
číšník
zaměstnankyně čistírny
zákaznice v čistírně
předseda senátu Bedřich Majerník
muž na poradě
muž na poradě
muž na poradě
manžel, Věřin známý
manželka, Věřina známá
vedoucí obchodu
hezká žena
dělník
barman
hostinská
manžel u soudu
železničář
hlas Spejbla a Hurvínka
M. Misárek, Marta Marková
Alexandr Kliment (Marie – novela)
Emanuel Dvořáček, Karel Průcha, Eva Slívová
Adolf Nacházel, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
Olga Mimrová, Miloš Rudolf
Jaroslava Hypiusová
Věra Houšková, Jana Suková, Aleš Voleman
Štěpán Koníček (FISYO)
Dříve než rozkvete kvítí
Jaromír Vomáčka (Dříve než rozkvete kvítí)
Marie
Marie
film
feature
narrative, psychological
Czechoslovakia
1964
1964
7 August 1964
Šebor – Bor, Vladimír Bor, Jiří Šebor
long
83 min
Czech