The Suicide

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1985

Production year

1985

Runtime

14 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Sebevrah

Czech title

Sebevrah

English title

The Suicide

Synopsis

The young painter Nikolai Petrovich Ryumin brings a man to his poor flat. He has just saved the intended suicide from drowning. He gives him his only Sunday clothes and lets him sleep over. The suicide is a writer by the name of Pampin, and was reportedly driven to the suicide attempt by his empty stomach. The painter then feeds Pampin for many days, brings him alcohol and is finally even forced to give him his bed because the bench is too hard and uncomfortable. Pampin would love to work but cannot find anything. When Ryumin finds him a job as a watchman, Pampin, however, refuses and feels offended – he, an intellectual, and such a job instead of passing on great ideas and knowledge! Nikolai Petrovich comes up with the offer to teach at a school. The guest rejects this, too – he surely is not interested in teaching idiots. He does not want to work in a newspaper office, either, and does not write a single line in three weeks. The painter is not at home and his friend Dascha comes to visit him. She compassionately asks the suicide how he feels. The man tries to embrace her. At that moment, the painter returns home, the situation makes him angry and he finally throws the unscrupulous guest out. Dáša cannot understand such rudeness and she herself offers asylum to the desperate fellow. The “suicide” leaves with the young woman without any thanks and even hastily returns for an unfinished bottle of vodka from by the door.

Cast

Ilja Racek

sebevrah Pampin

Ivan Vyskočil

malíř Nikolaj Petrovič Rjumin

Julie Jurištová

Dáša, Nikolajova přítelkyně

Crew and creators

Based on

Arkadij Timofejevič Averčenko (Kámen na krku /Kameň na šeje/ – povídka)

Screenplay

Martin Jaroš

Director of Photography

Štefan Komorný

Production Designer

Oldřich Bosák

Film Editor

Martin Čech

Production Manager

Mária Kassemov

Pedagogical management

Jaroslav Balík (režie), Jiří Macháně (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih), Hana Bezrouková

Cooperation

M. Dušková, H. Tothová, R. Werner

Production info

Original Title

Sebevrah

Czech Title

Sebevrah

English Title

The Suicide

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1985

Production Year

1985

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

14 min

Original length in metres

393 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

Opening/End credits languages

Czech