Adaggio
Category
filmGenre
dramaTypology
featuretheatrical distributionshortOriginal title
AdagioCzech title
AdagioEnglish title
AdaggioWorking title
U pramenů Vltavy / U pramenů řeky VltavySynopsis
Prisoner Ivan, a talented violin player, performs for Hauptsturmführer SS Hecht in his office. The one-armed Hecht by turns listens and talks to Ivan, whose sympathy he would like to gain. It would be enough for Hecht if Ivan only said that he has nothing in common with the other prisoners. But Ivan does not betray his people. He says nothing and, in his imagination, sees a revolt of the prisoners, their fight with the Germans and their dogs and Hecht's death. Hecht wants to return home - because "anything is better than death". In a family photograph, the former virtuoso Hecht has both arms. In a mass grave Ivan lies dead and the German officer weeps.
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Cast
Josef Somr
hauptsturmführer SS Hecht, bývalý virtuos
Ivan Štraus
zajatec Ivan
Květa Fialová
Hechtova žena
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Music
Music Composed by
Selected Music
Luboš Fišer (Adagio)
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Production info
Original Title
Adagio
Czech Title
Adagio
English Title
Adaggio
Working Title
U pramenů Vltavy / U pramenů řeky Vltavy
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
drama
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1970
Production Year
1970
Production specifications
projection approval 15 April 1970
Premiere
premiere 1970 /suitable for youths/
Distribution slogan
no caption
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
20 min
Original length in metres
562 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
