Lion the Friend

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1985

Production year

1985

Runtime

41 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmmedium

Original title

Ententýny

Czech title

Ententýny

English title

Lion the Friend

Synopsis

The Vondráček family is in a hurry every morning. Both the mum and the dad Honza have to go to work but first they must take their son Kuba to the kindergarten. Kuba is a perceptive boy who often escapes into his imaginary world. A large part of it involves a lion, even though Kuba has never seen a real one. His friends in kindergarten are ahead of him – their parents have already taken them to the ZOO and they thus already know lions. After work, mum often goes with Kuba to a café to meet her girlfriends for a while. One of them, Jitka, announces her divorce. The young women also watch Káťa from a distance, knowing that she cannot get pregnant. Káťa loves her husband Igor and he loves her. But even so, they quarrel when Káťa finally conceives – her pregnancy is risky and the woman can barely stand that her husband wants to do sports without her. Kuba cannot resist seeing a lion any longer. One day, he runs away from the kindergarten and makes it to the ZOO. He talks to the lion behind the bars with fascination. It seems to him that the animal is sad. The guard, however, soon throws the boy out. Both the parents and the kindergarten teacher are embittered by his escapade without thinking why the kid actually did it. Káťa and Igor are happy that a healthy baby boy was born. Will they be equally happy when the baby grows up to Kuba’s age? Kuba’s parents never have time for him.

Cast

Eva Hudečková

učitelka v mateřské škole

Simona Stašová

maminka Vondráčková

Jiří Wohanka

Honza, manžel Vondráčkové

Filip Brabec

Kuba, syn Vondráčkových

Miluše Šplechtová

Káťa, Igorova žena

Vilém Besser

gynekolog

Hana Čížková

Jitka, maminčina kamarádka

Tereza Hubálková

Terezka

Ivana Velichová

Jitčina kamarádka

Dana Bartůňková

Jitčina kamarádka

Viktor Maurer

hlídač v zoologické zahradě

Jiří Brabec (hudebník)

muž na jezdících schodech

Crew and creators

Director of Photography

Bojan Bazeli

Film Editor

Vladimír Lisoň

Unit Production Manager

Lenka Křivakovská

Pedagogical management

Antonín Kachlík (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Josef Valušiak (střih)

Cooperation

Jan Horský, Petr Hubálek, Zuzana Hubálková, Jana Kolešová, Jana Křupalová, Tomáš Kupec, Michal Výborný

Music

Music Composed by

Daniel Forró

Production info

Original Title

Ententýny

Czech Title

Ententýny

English Title

Lion the Friend

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

medium length film

Duration in minutes

41 min

Original length in metres

1 160 meters

Distribution carrier

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