A Gigot

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1975

Production year

1975

Runtime

12 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Skopová kýta

Czech title

Skopová kýta

English title

A Gigot

Synopsis

A loving young wife Mary Malony is waiting till her husband - a policeman Patrick comes home from work. She is warming up his slippers at the fireplace. When her husband finally comes home, he tells her totally coldly, that he leaves her because he has had for some time an affair with another woman. The woman is shocked but she tries to gain her husband back. She wants to even bake a gigot for him. She brigs the frozen gigot to show him, but the man reacts rudely that he does not want any dinner because he is leaving. The woman hits him in affect with the gigot to his head. Then she goes shopping to be covered-up. After she comes back she pretends a panic when she finds her husband dead on the floor. Three police investigators, colleagues of her husband search in vain for the fatal weapon which killed the man. The woman invites them for the gigot and they are discussing even at the table what the offender has used to kill Patrick, if nothing is missing in the flat. Secretly, the woman is listening to them and watching with pleasure how they enjoy the roast gigot, which is on the table just in front of their eyes.

Cast

Hana Maciuchová

Mary Malonyová

Petr Čepek

policista Patrick, Mariin manžel

Jan Skopeček

policejní vyšetřovatel Jack

Jiří Hrzán

policejní vyšetřovatel Jack

Karel Augusta

policejní vyšetřovatel Jack

Václav Kotva

obchodník Sam

Crew and creators

Based on

Roald Dahl (Skopec na porážku – povídka)

Screenplay

Jiří Dufek

Director of Photography

Ervín Sanders

Production Designer

Aleš Voleman

Make-Up Artist

Marie Džbánková

Film Editor

Michael Kořán

Sound Designer

Josef Hubka

Production Manager

Karel Fiala, Jiří Bedrník

Pedagogical management

Vladimír Volf (produkce), Alois Fišárek (střih), Eduard Landisch (kamera), Václav Vorlíček (režie)

Production info

Original Title

Skopová kýta

Czech Title

Skopová kýta

English Title

A Gigot

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1975

Production Year

1975

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

12 min

Original length in metres

328 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