Poet
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
PoetaCzech title
PoetaEnglish title
PoetSynopsis
A little boy with the peculiar name Poeta (Poet) is desperate for the friendship of Franta Prskavec, a country boy who knows how to cope with every situation. Poeta is trying to cross over a stream on a log, a task that Franta has set him as a condition for calling him Tom instead of Poeta, and the little boys hopes that then he will also be able to call himself Prskavec and be almost like his brother. For the moment he prefers to crawl across the log on all fours. A girl with an apple laughs at Tom's claim that Franta is his brother - everybody knows the little boy's parents, a professor and an engineer, and the strange name they have given him. Finally the girl hits him on the nose. The emotionally deprived boy would rather belong to Franta's mother, an ordinary warm-hearted countrywoman. Another little girl is trying on a black veil and casually tells Tom that there will be a funeral - Franta has drowned. The boy is sad but his elegant mother and cold father regard his explanation as just more make-believe. After all, he has no brother so he couldn't have to lose one. Tom talks to Franta's mother and offers to go and see her every day, but the kind woman doesn't want to take him away from his mother. Tom falls asleep in the grass and in a half-wakeful state sees his parents crossing the stream on the log...
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Cast
Jakub Hais
Tom Poeta
Boris Kubíček
Franta Prskavec
Věra Galatíková
Frantova matka
Jana Šulcová
profesorka, Poetova matka
Miroslav Zounar
inženýr, Poetův otec
Václav Stýblo
lékař
Veronika Týblová
holka s jablkem
Žaneta Fuchsová
holka se závojem
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
William Saroyan (Billův bratr /Bill McGees's Brother/ – povídka)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Jiří Sequens (režie), Jiří Macháně (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih), Viola Zelenková (produkce)
Production info
Original Title
Poeta
Czech Title
Poeta
English Title
Poet
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1980
Production Year
1980
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
14 min
Original length in metres
387 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
