A Window's Limits

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1982

Production year

1982

Runtime

45 min

Category

film

Genre

psychological

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmmedium

Original title

Hranice vdovy

Czech title

Hranice vdovy

English title

A Window's Limits

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Jana Riháková

zdravotní sestra Božena Tomešová

Marie Drahokoupilová

matka Palátová

Miroslav Moravec

vedoucí odboru vnitřních věcí B. Křepelák

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 Přikryl

dítě

Jiří Rachvalík

Karel Soukup (2)

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Norbert Frýd

Based on

Norbert Frýd (Živá socha – novela)

Dramaturg

Alois Ditrich

Director of Photography

Vladimír Holomek

Production Manager

Petr Truneček, Petr Kment

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

Miki Jelínek

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

Studio FAMU

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