Faun's Delayed Afternoon
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1983Production year
1982Premiere
1 October 1984Runtime
96 minDirector
Věra ChytilováCategory
filmGenre
comedy, moralityTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledneCzech title
Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledneEnglish title
Faun's Delayed AfternoonWorking title
Faunovo odpoledne / Faunovo pozdní odpoledneSynopsis
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.
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Cast
Leoš Suchařípa
úředník Karel zvaný Faun a Kendy
Libuše Pospíšilová
šéfka
Vlasta Špicnerová
kolegyně Vlasta
Jiří Hálek
Josef, Faunův přítel
Ivan Vyskočil
kolega Tonda
František Kovářík
stařík
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
Anna, Polka na mostě
Jiří Konečný (3)
Polák Jochem, lesník
Ela Šárková
Anita
Robin Čep
student
Alexandra Kačírková
studentka
Lucie Polívková
domovnice
Vida Skalská
dívka v modrých šatech
Eva Burgerová
Marcelka, sekretářka šéfky
Karel Bělohradský
stěhovák
Jitka Kašparová
dívka
Jitka Grösslerová
dívka
Olga Dudová
dívka
Tereza Brdečková
nahá dívka u závěsu
Vendula Svobodová
dívka
Robinson Khun
kluk s kšiltovkou
Irena Hahnová
blonďatá písařka
Milan Gargula
muž na mejdanu
Vladimír Tesař
kolega
Eva Kačírková
kolegyně
Jiřina Steimarová
návštěvnice koncertu
Věra Křesadlová
návštěvnice koncertu
Věra Chytilová
návštěvnice koncertu
Olga Michálková
návštěvnice koncertu
Jaromír Šofr
návštěvník koncertu
Frank Towen
návštěvník koncertu
Vlastimil Harapes
návštěvník koncertu
Ivan Šlapeta
návštěvník koncertu
Pavel Bobek
návštěvník koncertu
Laco Déczi
návštěvník koncertu
Štěpán Kučera
chlapec na schodech
Vlastimila Vlková
žena na schodech
Miloš Schmiedberger
muž s kšiltovkou
Michal Lutterer
mladík
Kočvara
mladík
Taťána Bártová
polonahá žena v bytě
Marta Pospíchalová
polonahá žena v bytě
Dana Boháčková
polonahá dívka v bytě
Pavla Michálková
polonahá dívka v bytě
Marta Pospíchalová ml.
polonahá dívka v bytě
Helena Šafránková
polonahá dívka v bytě
Blažková
polonahá dívka v bytě
Waltrová
polonahá dívka v bytě
Pflegrová
matka s dětmi
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Eva Solařová, Milana Ondráková
Based on
Jiří Brdečka (Faunovo značně pokročilé odpoledne – kniha)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Jiří Rolínek, František Čech, Pavel Černý
Production Designer
Art Director
Set Designer
Petr Brousek, Vladislav Kaska, Tomáš Marek, Pavel Šťastný
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Assistant Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Šárka Podlipná, Jarmila Bradová, Jiří Kaukuš
Unit Production Manager
Jaroslav Procházka (výroba)
Consultant
Cooperation
Bohumil Hůja, Jiří Poledník, Karel Štolka, Hojler, Melč, Stejskal
Music
Music Composed by
Selected Music
Claude Debussy, Antonio Vivaldi, Fryderyk Chopin, Ladislav Kupkovič
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František BelfínMario KlemensŠtěpán Koníček)
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
Working Title
Faunovo odpoledne / Faunovo pozdní odpoledne
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy, morality
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1983
Production Year
1982
Production specifications
start of filming 8 September 1982
end of filming 9 December 1982
withdrawal from distribution 30 September 1991
Premiere
premiere 1 October 1984 /inaccessible for youths/
Production
Copyright Holders
Ateliéry Bonton Zlín (Ateliéry Bonton Zlín odkoupily na základě smlouvy dne 15. 3. 2000 od KF Praha 100 % práv výrobce filmu)
Studio
Laboratories
Distribution
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, Polish
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
Awards
Vítěz
Festival: 10. mezinárodní filmový festival Quito
1988
Quito / Ecuador
Vítěz
Festival: 28. mezinárodní festival autorského filmu Sanremo
1985
Sanremo / Italy
Leoš Suchařípa
Vítěz
Festival: 28. mezinárodní festival autorského filmu Sanremo
1985
Sanremo / Italy
Vítěz
Festival: 36. filmový festival pracujících – léto ´85
1985
70 měst / Czechoslovakia
