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.
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.
Jan zvaný Drsňák
učitelka Jarmila
Tomáš
Jolana, Tomášova milenka
Anděla
servírka Štěpa Zelenková
tajemník národního výboru Froněk
farář
Jarmilina domácí
starý pán, Janův pěstoun
stará paní, Janova pěstounka
kostelník
lékař Krása, Jarmilin přítel
praporčík vězeňské stráže
dcera výčepního
mladá dívka
hrobař Ferdásek
Babánek
romská kapela
vězeňský psychiatr
Habrová
muž
Ivo Černý, Miloš Osvald, Jiří Rulík
Vlasta Synkulová, Václav Dobeš
Hana Macháčková, Milada Malínská, Gabriela Globočníková, Jaromír Švarc
Štěpán Koníček (FISYO)
Romská píseň, Pod tou naší starou lípou, Ej, ani kukuk, ani sojka, Lepší je vínečko nežli voda, Na kopečku stála, plakala
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)
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)
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)
Nahota
The Nude
film
feature
psychological
Czechoslovakia
1970
1969—1970
12 March 1971
Šmída – Daniel, František Daniel, Bohumil Šmída
long
102 min
Czech