The Nude
Typology
featureCzech title
NahotaRuntime
102Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1970Production year
1969 – 1970Premiere
12.03.1971Language version
CzechDirector
Václav MatějkaScreenplay
Václav MatějkaScreenstory
Václav MatějkaSummary
Nahota (The Nude) is director Václav Matějka’s first feature film. Unfortunately, the 1970 psychological drama was banned from release because its main star, Slovak Kristina Hanzalová, emigrated to western Europe shortly after the movie was finished. The 1969 Miss Czechoslovakia finished seventh in the 1970 Miss World beauty pageant, and went on to become a model. This drama, which was only released in theatres as late as 1990, after the revolution, was the only film the talented beauty made. She stars as a traumatised country teacher. With some bravura, 30-year-old Petr Čepek plays a young prisoner who is granted a few days’ leave after an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
Synopsis
Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy [Drsňák], tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee named Froněk, and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by the road-builders in whose group he worked. The prison doctor knows that Jan is an emotionally deprived person who never knew his parents and spent all his childhood - except one year with foster-parents - in orphanages, homes for youth and reform schools. He arranges a five-day holiday for Jan, who wants to find his mother's grave. The old foster-parents do not know anything about her and Roughboy thus goes to the town where he lived. In a hotel, he visits his former lover, waitress Štěpa, who takes him in for the night. At the National Committee, the young man finds Secretary Froněk, who informs him that his mother was buried in the village Horní Světlá. Upon his arrival at the village, Jan learns from the sexton that she committed suicide as a very young woman, unable to bear the fate of an unmarried mother. In the village, Jan meets the pretty teacher, Jarmila. She, too, has unsolved traumas from her past and is afraid of physical love. She does not know anything about Jan and is somehow irritated by his behaviour. Despite this, they visit a wine cellar and the slight drunkenness makes it easier for them to become closer. After a night full of love, conscience wakes up in Roughboy and he reveals his situation to Jarmila. The young woman feels that another dream of hers has evaporated and Roughboy drowns his sorrow in drink in the local pub. They both remain alone.
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Cast
Petr Čepek
Jan zvaný Drsňák
Kristina Hanzalová
učitelka Jarmila
Vlado Müller
Tomáš
Věra Galatíková
Jolana, Tomášova milenka
Emma Černá
Anděla
Sylvia Turbová
servírka Štěpa Zelenková
Bohuslav Čáp
tajemník národního výboru Froněk
P.Karel Mach
farář
Jarmila Kurandová
Jarmilina domácí
Emil Iserle
starý pán, Janův pěstoun
Vlasta Jelínková
stará paní, Janova pěstounka
Adam Matejka
kostelník
Václav Mareš
lékař Krása, Jarmilin přítel
Viktor Maurer
praporčík vězeňské stráže
Zdena Burdová
dcera výčepního
Alexandra Korytová
mladá dívka
Vladimír Jedenáctík
hrobař Ferdásek
Miloslav Šindler
Babánek
skupina bratří Gondolánů
romská kapela
Milan Morávek
vězeňský psychiatr
H. Troníčková
Habrová
J. Váňa
muž
Dubbing
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Script Editor
Camera
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Set Designer
Ivo Černý, Miloš Osvald, Jiří Rulík
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Vlasta Synkulová, Václav Dobeš
Cooperation
Hana Macháčková, Milada Malínská, Gabriela Globočníková, Jaromír Švarc
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
Music Conducted by
Štěpán Koníček (FISYO)
Songs
Romská píseň, Pod tou naší starou lípou, Ej, ani kukuk, ani sojka, Lepší je vínečko nežli voda, Na kopečku stála, plakala
Songwriter
lidová píseň (Pod tou naší starou lípou), lidová píseň (Ej, ani kukuk, ani sojka), lidová píseň (Lepší je vínečko nežli voda), lidová píseň (Na kopečku stála, plakala)
Writer of Lyrics
lidová píseň (Pod tou naší starou lípou), lidová píseň (Ej, ani kukuk, ani sojka), lidová píseň (Lepší je vínečko nežli voda), lidová píseň (Na kopečku stála, plakala)
Singer
skupina bratří Gondolánů (Romská píseň), sbor (Pod tou naší starou lípou), Vlado Müller (Ej, ani kukuk, ani sojka), sbor (Lepší je vínečko nežli voda), sbor (Na kopečku stála, plakala)
Production info
Original Title
Nahota
English Title
The Nude
Copyright
1970
Production Year
1969 – 1970
Premiere
12.03.1971
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Creative Group
Šmída – Daniel, František Daniel, Bohumil Šmída
Technical info
Format
Betacam
Versions
Czech