Hunting the Ducks

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1981

Production year

1981

Runtime

37 min

Director

Jan Prokop

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmmedium

Original title

Lov na kachny

Czech title

Lov na kachny

English title

Hunting the Ducks

Synopsis

A pretty girl, Irena, comes by mistake to the office of the Technical Information Centre. Viktor Zídek, who works in the Centre, immediately makes a date with her. He is not stopped even by a phone call from his wife, Kateřina, who tells him that she expects a baby. Viktor’s and Kateřina’s marriage has not been happy for a long time. Some time has passed since the years in love and Viktor spends more and more time with other women. Kateřina wants to break up with him, but Viktor does not want to allow that, although he is dating further with Irena, who does not know that he is married. Nor is Kateřina firmly decided, as she still loves Viktor. Viktor’s father dies. Viktor goes to the pub to drink away his sorrow, Irena comes here too. Kateřina finds out, as she brought clothes for the funeral to him at the pub. Kateřina leaves forever and she locks Viktor in the flat. Behind the locked door, Viktor confesses love to Kateřina again and he even wants to take her duck hunting. Irena hears his confession of love. Viktor invites Irena, his colleague Petr, his boss and his wife to a restaurant. There he gets drunk and he offends them all. In the morning, a messenger brings a funeral wreath with a dedication "prematurely burnt away at work and in life from sad friends". Viktor wants to shoot himself, but his friend stops him. Viktor aims the gun at his friend, but then throws him out. Then he starts laughing... or crying?

Cast

Jan Vlasák

Ing. Viktor Zídek

Taťána Fischerová

Kateřina, Zídkova manželka

Jiří Kodeš

číšník Michal

Břetislav Slováček

Petr Kubec, Viktorův kolega

Václav Bouška

Kůstka, vedoucí Střediska technichnických informací

Hana Čížková

Věra, Petrova manželka

Crew and creators

Director

Jan Prokop

Based on

Alexandr Valentinovič Vampilov (Lov na kachny /Utinaja ochota/ – divadelní hra)

Screenplay

Jan Prokop

Director of Photography

Miroslav Čvorsjuk

Film Editor

Jindřich Frýda

Sound Designer

Josef Hubka

Production Manager

Petr Beneš, Ivo Nikolov

Pedagogical management

Jaroslav Balík (režie), Otakar Fuka, Jan Kališ (kamera), Josef Valušiak (střih), Hana Bezrouková

Music

Selected Music

Leoš Janáček (V mlhách /1.věta Andante/)

Songs

Já mám ráda boogie

Song Composer Rolf Soja
Writer of Lyrics Miroslav Černý
Singer Věra Špinarová

Chci tě líbat

Song Composer Carole Bayer SagerAlbert Hammond
Writer of Lyrics Eduard Krečmar
Singer Václav Neckář

Production info

Original Title

Lov na kachny

Czech Title

Lov na kachny

English Title

Hunting the Ducks

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1981

Production Year

1981

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

37 min

Original length in metres

1 044 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech