The Bottles
Category
filmGenre
children, moralityTypology
featuretheatrical distributionshortOriginal title
LáhveCzech title
LáhveEnglish title
The BottlesSynopsis
It is a hot summer holidays day. Three boys, a little girl and their dog Voříšek all hang about waiting for the shift to end on a housing estate building site so that the workers will leave. Then they sneak through a hole in the fence and search the entire place for beer bottles, so that they can claim the bottle deposit money and buy lemonade. Then they find out that the old watchman is angry with the builders for not returning the bottles. He earns some money on the side by providing drinks for the builders and will lose his deposit for all the bottles that are missing. Voříšek runs around and the watchman catches him. The children decide to go and get their dog and offer to help the old man find the bottles. The watchman is pleased, especially when the boys take his heavy crates all the way to the shop in a handcart. In the evening, the children all go home and their joint forays seem to have lost their meaning.
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Cast
L. H. Struna
hlídač
Ladislav Jurečka
hostinský
Marián Kleis ml.
Vašek
Ludmila Knapková
dívka
Jiří Kuděla
kluk
Jiří Tabak
kluk
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Marta Novotná
Screenstory
Josef Prošek
Screenplay
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Set Designer
František Santarius
Costume Designer
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
František Strangmüller, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
Songs
Sluníčko
Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer Jiří Tabak
Production info
Original Title
Láhve
Czech Title
Láhve
English Title
The Bottles
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
children, morality
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1964
Production Year
1964
Production specifications
projection approval 21 March 1964
Premiere
premiere 6 November 1964 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 25 December 1964 /suitable for youths/ (kina Tatra /1 týden/ a Dalibor /1 týden od 25. 12./, Praha)
Distribution slogan
no caption
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
19 min
Original length in metres
547 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
