In the middle of night a man is reading the poem, The Raven, from Poe's book of poems. His wife is sleeping next to him, even snoring a bit. While reciting the entire poem about a lover who recalls his dead love, Lenora, the man experiences a strange confrontation with a raven which flew into his room. The man leaves the room. In their picture album, he finds a picture of his wife as a girl. Behind his back, his daughter is walking quietly to drink some water. When the man looks through the eyelet to the corridor, it appears to him that a raven is walking there. But when he opens the door though, he sees just scattered shoes. The man pours a glass of rum, then drinks the entire bottle. His sleepy wife finds him lying in front of the television where the programme has long finished. She sends him to bed. The man, called Pepa, leaves for the sleeping room. In the morning the family parts in front of the house and Pepa, surprisingly, picks up a black bird feather. Through his mind flashes an image of him pushing his wife' s head under water, but in the end he does not let her drown. While playing a children's game, together with his wife and children, they are all holding hands in a circle and jumping in the water.
The film was released in cinemas as a preview of the French comedy March in the Shadow.
Pepa
manželka
Edgar Allan Poe (Havran /The Raven/ – báseň /v překladu Vítězslava Nezvala/)
Havran v panelovém domě
Havran v panelovém domě
Raven in a Tenement
Havran v paneláku
film
featuretheatrical distribution
étude
Czechoslovakia
1983
1983
premiere 1 June 1986 /unsuitable for youths/
no caption
short film
13 min
365 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech