Night of Morena
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Noc MorenyCzech title
Noc MorenyEnglish title
Night of MorenaSynopsis
Young Slovak lumberjacks are felling trees in the forest. One of them roasts the bacon over an open fire, while another plays the pipe. Then an accident happens. Jano is killed by a falling tree. His widow Milka genuinely mourns her husband's death but it is his three friends who will spend the night before the funeral with his body laid out in the living room. At first they sit in silence, then they help themselves out with a drop of alcohol. One of them used to fancy Milka but she preferred Jano. Since Jano's soul has left his body, they have a feeling he has shrivelled. The young men eat bread and bacon and drink brandy. By morning, they begin to jump over their friend's dead body with loud cheers. The sun rises. Milka scorns her husband's friends as "drunken fools" and kicks them out of the living room. Outside in the fields, the children sing and carry a Morena figure (in the Slav mythology the goddess of death and winter) and finally throw it into the water.
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Cast
Predrag Babović
dřevorubec Jano
Sylvia Turbová
mladá vdova Milka
Eduard Vítek
dřevorubec
Ľubomír Záhon
dřevorubec
Dušan Skokan
dřevorubec
Crew and creators
Director
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Jiří Sequens (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih), Vladimír Volf (produkce)
Cooperation
Dušan Hudec, Dodo Lietavec, Roman Mihina, Augustin Valko, Zoltán Weigl, žáci ZDŠ Kojšov, D. Solčányi, B. Šnajdar, V. Tichý
Songs
Morena, Morena
Singer sbor
Production info
Original Title
Noc Moreny
Czech Title
Noc Moreny
English Title
Night of Morena
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1974
Production Year
1974
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
20 min
Original length in metres
549 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Slovak
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Slovak
