Imprudent Fellow

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production year

1983

Runtime

14 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Drzoun

Czech title

Drzoun

English title

Imprudent Fellow

Synopsis

A young man amazedly looks around a cemetery where he has woken up. A peculiar creature is throwing dice on a tomb. It is a ghoul – a demon which feeds on dead bodies. He introduces him to the vampire Boris and, as it follows from their conversation, the vampire is in a way the young man’s father. When the youth fell ill in 1970, he was treated basically for free by a physician who attended his place only after dark, and he recognizes the doctor in the old vampire. The young man despises the old and worn out ghosts and recommends them to modernize both their clothing and manners. He learns that some “blow” occurred recently and the people who survived withdrew somewhere under the ground. A young werewolf comes to the cemetery boasting that he has a new litter of cubs from his bitch. Like the ghoul and the vampire, he is starving although he catches a rabbit from time to time. The overconfident newcomer gets on the threesome’s nerves. They eventually agree that he is an imprudent fellow and that he could serve them as food for the moment.

Cast

Milan Šteindler

mladý muž

Ivo Novotný

upír Boris

Crew and creators

Based on

E. C. Tubb (Drzoun /Fresh Guy/ ze sbírky Tichá hrůza – povídka)

Director of Photography

Martin Kubala

Production info

Original Title

Drzoun

Czech Title

Drzoun

English Title

Imprudent Fellow

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production Year

1983

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

14 min

Original length in metres

161 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm

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