Trial

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1971

Production year

1971

Runtime

15 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Soud

Czech title

Soud

English title

Trial

Synopsis

Photographs documenting police actions during demonstrations in South America are accompanied by a commentary talking about malnutrition of the people and deaths of up to a million children in the countries on this continent from diseases that are otherwise commonly curable. A group of young revolutionaries have abducted Juan Morales, a man who directly participated in torturing and murdering thirty-six of their comrades. The revolutionary tribunal sentences the elderly man to death and one of the young men is chosen to be the punisher. Morales defends himself: after all, he has never personally tortured anyone. It has been proven, however, that he was always present, interrogating the tortured men and inspiring new methods of torture. The punisher is left alone with his gun and Morales, who is sitting in a chair, his hands tied. The young man hesitates, gathering courage to do the execution. This gives Morales time to slip out of his binds; as they grapple, the gun goes off and the bullet hits the young man. Before he dies, he manages to execute the sentence. Five people a day die in Latin America for political reasons.

Cast

Gustav Opočenský

obžalovaný Juan Morales

Ivan Vyskočil

vykonavatel rozsudku

Crew and creators

Assistant Director

Abdelhafidh Bouassida

Director of Photography

Jan Malíř

Camera Operator

Jiří Hošek

Production Designer

Aleš Voleman

Sound Designer

Josef Hubka

Production Manager

Boris Nakladov, Karel Fiala

Pedagogical management

Otakar Vávra (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Bohumil Šmída (produkce), Josef Dobřichovský (střih)

Music

Music Composed by

archivní

Music Advisor

Josef Ceremuga

Production info

Original Title

Soud

Czech Title

Soud

English Title

Trial

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1971

Production Year

1971

Production

Studio FAMU

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

15 min

Original length in metres

432 meters

Distribution carrier

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