Faun's Delayed Afternoon

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production year

1983

Premiere

1 October 1984

Runtime

96 min

Category

film

Genre

comedy, morality

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne

Czech title

Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne

English title

Faun's Delayed Afternoon

Synopsis

The clerk Karel dresses in an elegant manner, he pampers his beard and is proud of his cosy bachelor’s flat in Prague’s prestigious Lesser Town. His lifestyle reminds one of a faun enjoying one woman after another. But there are also moments of providence when Karel realizes that his beard is turning grey, he gets out of breath climbing the staircase, and the “beldams” he runs into in his neighbourhood are his contemporaries. The smug, self-conceited and egoistic faun does not work too eagerly and his boss – his former schoolmate – must repeatedly force him to find a lost and highly required file. The valetudinarian faun discovers it under the pillow of his office armchair only when his colleague Vlasta threatens him by getting haemorrhoids. The faun does not understand the young girls frequenting his flat any more and he even does not mind if it does not come to sex. He ignores both the platonic love of Vlasta and the rougher seducing of his boss. He is pleased by the envy of his married friend Josef who wants to imitate him and plans to seduce his young colleague, nicknamed Cipísek. The faun gets two concert tickets but has no one to accompany him. Although he meets a young and attractive visitor in the Rudolfinum concert hall, she laughs at his seduction. The faun is increasingly reminded that old age is marching towards him inexorably. Vlasta, disappointed, hands in her notice. The faun turns down Josef’s request to sign a paper documenting him as the father of the Cipísek’s child. The drunken faun sets off to a housing estate to find Vlasta. He succeeds but fails to appropriately accept her declaration of love. The offended woman calls her boss who eventually finds faun asleep on a bench with a scythe leaning against it. The faun, exhausted by his hangover, confuses the pale woman wrapped in a cloak for the personified Death in the morning mist. He desperately wrestles with her but the boss mercilessly drags him to her car.

Cast

Leoš Suchařípa

úředník Karel zvaný Faun a Kendy

Vlasta Špicnerová

kolegyně Vlasta

Jiří Hálek

Josef, Faunův přítel

Ivan Vyskočil

kolega Tonda

Arnoštka Červená

Antonie Houdková, Faunova sousedka

Věra Pávková

Janinka Houdková, sestra Antonie

Zuzana Solařová

Vendulka, zajíc z nemocnice

Alena Ambrová

Alenka Koželuhová, pokousaný zajíc

Monika Křišťová

Monika, zajíc v rudém

Tereza Kučerová

Tereza, zajíc v podvlékačkách

Ivana Chýlková

Kateřina, zajíc na koncertě

Stanislava Coufalová

Zdenička, zajíc v práci

Marie Vápeníková

Petra, zajíc s melounem

Eva Činčerová

zajíc ve výtahu

Dagmar Vlčková

nová sekretářka

Jana Špaňůrová

Polka na mostě

Jiří Konečný (3)

polský lesník

Robin Čep

student

Alexandra Kačírková

studentka

Lucie Polívková

domovnice

Vida Skalská

dívka v modrých šatech

Eva Burgerová

Marcelka, sekretářka šéfky

Jitka Kašparová

dívka

Jitka Grösslerová

dívka

Olga Dudová

dívka

Vendula Svobodová

dívka

Robinson Khun

kluk s kšiltovkou

Irena Hahnová

blonďatá písařka

Milan Gargula

muž na mejdanu

Eva Kačírková

kolegyně

Jiřina Steimarová

návštěvnice koncertu

Věra Křesadlová

návštěvnice koncertu

Věra Chytilová

návštěvnice koncertu

Jaromír Šofr

návštěvník koncertu

Frank Towen

návštěvník koncertu

Vlastimil Harapes

návštěvník koncertu

Ivan Šlapeta

návštěvník koncertu

Pavel Bobek

návštěvník koncertu

Vlastimila Vlková

žena na schodech

Miloš Schmiedberger

muž s kšiltovkou

Dana Boháčková

Michal Lutterer

Crew and creators

Second Unit Director

Miroslav Khun

Assistant Director

Eva Solařová, Milana Ondráková

Based on

Jiří Brdečka (Faunovo značně pokročilé odpoledne – kniha)

Director of Photography

Jan Malíř

Second Unit Photography

Ivan Skopec

Camera Operator

Jiří Rolínek, František Čech

Production Designer

Zbyněk Hloch

Art Director

Ester Krumbachová

Set Designer

Petr Brousek, Vladislav Kaska, Tomáš Marek, Pavel Šťastný

Costume Designer

Tereza Kučerová

Film Editor

Alois Fišárek

Sound Designer

Zbyněk Mikulík

Production Manager

Karel Kvítek

Unit Production Manager

Šárka Podlipná

Unit Production Manager

Jaroslav Procházka (výroba)

Cooperation

Jiří Poledník

Songs

Ach, ta láska nebeská

Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer Leoš Suchařípa

Production info

Original Title

Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne

Czech Title

Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne

English Title

Faun's Delayed Afternoon

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy, morality

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production Year

1983

Premiere

premiere 1 October 1984 /unsuitable for youths/

Production

KF Praha

Copyright Holders

Ateliéry Bonton Zlín (Ateliéry Bonton Zlín odkoupily na základě smlouvy dne 15. 3. 2000 od KF Praha 100 % práv výrobce filmu)

Studio

Hostivař

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

96 min

Original length in metres

2 729 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 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

Awards

Vítěz

Festival: 10. mezinárodní filmový festival Quito

1988
Quito / Ecuador

Vítěz

Festival: 36. filmový festival pracujících – léto ´85

1985
70 měst / Czechoslovakia

Vítěz

Festival: 28. mezinárodní festival autorského filmu Sanremo

1985
Sanremo / Italy
Leoš Suchařípa

Vítěz

Festival: 28. mezinárodní festival autorského filmu Sanremo

1985
Sanremo / Italy