A Window's Limits
Category
filmGenre
psychologicalTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmmediumOriginal title
Hranice vdovyCzech title
Hranice vdovyEnglish title
A Window's LimitsSynopsis
Nurse Božena Tomešová gets a wire that her husband was killed while fulfilling his service duty on the Czechoslovakian border. In reality, Božena had broken from him a long time ago. She lives with her friend Vojta and wanted to get divorced from her husband. His death changed her circumstances. The young woman is now the widow of a hero and unsuccessfully explains to the respective authorities that she no longer had anything in common with him. Despite that, she must attend his funeral, but she adamantly refuses a widow’s pension. Her late husband is to receive distinction in memoriam and, therefore, the authorities screen her life. The case is tried by the local communist party unit in the hospital where she works.
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Cast
Jana Riháková
zdravotní sestra Božena Tomešová
Rudolf Stärz
Vojta
Jiřina Jirásková
MUDr. Modrá
Zdeněk Ornest
lékař
Marie Drahokoupilová
matka Palátová
Miroslav Moravec
vedoucí odboru vnitřních věcí B. Křepelák
Eva Svobodová
Voice by Věra Tichánková
sousedka
Iva Hüttnerová
redaktorka Vašicová
Milan Hein
Voice by Miroslav Masopust
redaktor Trubač
Jitka Asterová
úřednice
Věra Krpálková
Voice by Karolina Slunéčková
zdravotní sestra Milada Fandrlíková
Pavel Lehotský
voják
Mirko Dostál
Voice by Jan Skopeček
kádrovák
Eva Zaoralová
matrikářka
Václav Kotva
listonoš
Jakub Heis
dítě
Tomáš Heis
dítě
Zuzana Hřebcová
dítě
Jakub Wehrenberg
dítě
Jakub Přikryl
dítě
Jiří Rachvalík
Karel Soukup (2)
Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Based on
Norbert Frýd (Živá socha – novela)
Screenplay
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Consultant
prof. MUDr Eduard Hradec DrSc., I. Vodičková (vrchní sestra), pplk. František Profous, npor. J. Slabý, M. Vimrová (staniční sestra)
Pedagogical management
Václav Vorlíček (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Čestmír Církva (střih), Hana Bezrouková
Cooperation
Václav Bouček, Helena Daňhelová, Zdeněk Kopka, Marie Kratochvílová, Jana Mašíková, Vlastimil Wasserbauer
Music
Music Composed by
Selected Music
Bedřich Smetana (Prodaná nevěsta /Proč bychom se netěšili/)
Songs
Pochod padlých revolucionářů
C'est la vie
Song Composer Jaromír Klempíř
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Štaidl
Singer Karel Gott
Krásné je žít /Somewhere My Love/
Song Composer Maurice Jarre
Production info
Original Title
Hranice vdovy
Czech Title
Hranice vdovy
English Title
A Window's Limits
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
psychological
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1982
Production Year
1982
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
medium length film
Duration in minutes
45 min
Original length in metres
1 286 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
