Cobra
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
KobraCzech title
KobraEnglish title
CobraSynopsis
Somewhere in the tropics, Timber Woods walks into the room at night and finds his friend, Harry Pope, lying on the bed, sweating terribly. Harry tells him very quietly that a coiled cobra is lying on his belly. Under the crumpled sheet the outline of the snake can’t be seen, but Woods immediately calls in doctor Ganderbai. The Indian doctor brings serum against snakebite and very carefully injects it into the stiff and horrified Pope. But the medicine is weak, therefore the doctor pours an anaesthetic solution under the sheet with a cannula. Then Woods and Ganderbai take the sheet and pull it down. However, there is no snake. The hysterical Harry rudely attacks the doctor, because it seems that the Indian doubts the danger. The doctor generously ignores him. – The final subtitle: On the 4th of July, Harry Pop Baker – a worker of the Lipton Tea CIA was found dead in his study. The official Indian doctor, Anil Ganderbai, found the cause of death was snakebite, most probably by a cobra.
Note
The story by Roald Dahl ends there where Woods apologises over Harry´s rudeness and Ganderbai replies that the patient shall, first of all, rest now. The information in the final subtitle was added by the scriptwriters.
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Cast
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Roald Dahl (Poison – povídka)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Sead Muhtarević, Igor Meglić
Film Editor
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Jiří Sequens (režie), Jana Semschová, Jiří Macháně (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih)
Cooperation
Anton Szomolányi, V. Trbojević, M. Vašica
Production info
Original Title
Kobra
Czech Title
Kobra
English Title
Cobra
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1984
Production Year
1984
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
10 min
Original length in metres
287 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Intertitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
