Dog's Lot, Nasty Lot
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Psoty lopotyCzech title
Psoty lopotyEnglish title
Dog's Lot, Nasty LotSynopsis
A young man brings a drunken woman, dancing in a brook, to her flat. A brightly looking, perhaps ten-year-old boy does not wonder at all, there are often men coming with his mother this way. The young man puts up the woman with a scarred face to the night but he does not wish to lie with her as others. He is captivated by the boy sitting in a wooden case who entrusts to him that his legs are not able to walk from the very birth. The boy boasts of his collection of insects placed in various small boxes. Though he practically cannot leave the miserable basement flat he is very clever, with rich vocabulary and prudent diction. The young man promises him to come again the next day. He fulfils the promise and brings a new store of small boxes. Out of gratitude, mother of the boy, stigmatised for ever by knife of some lover, offers the young man her body. He tactfully refuses her. Then the boy tells him about his dream. After he has a vehicle, in which he can go out, he will beg enough money to buy for him and mother a big house in wide fields. Mother embraces her little son and sings him a song: There come dog's lot, nasty lot, further on a suffering, suffering and rowing, heart will be broken! Things are looking bad, things are looking bad, where to hide my head!
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Cast
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Maxim Gorkij (Psoty lopoty – povídka)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Antonín Kachlík (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih), Vladimír Volf (produkce)
Music
Music Composed by
archivní
Music Advisor
Production info
Original Title
Psoty lopoty
Czech Title
Psoty lopoty
English Title
Dog's Lot, Nasty Lot
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1973
Production Year
1973
Production
Copyright Holders
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
14 min
Original length in metres
381 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
