The Little Gift
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
DárečekCzech title
DárečekEnglish title
The Little GiftSynopsis
The young married couple Eva and Václav Dvořák prepare for the Christmas celebration in their flat. Someone unexpectedly rings the bell. Eva’s brother Marcello has come to visit them. Eva had not seen him for a couple of years because he had been living in Italy and then West Germany. The guest has brought them a cassette player and Eva makes Václav give him one of his presents intended for her in return. It turns out to be earrings, and Marcello puts one of them on his ear. While the siblings boisterously celebrate their reunion, Václav cannot pull himself together. At night, he secretly peeps into Marcello’s suitcase and discovers a gun. He realizes that his brother-in-law is a terrorist, and grasps why he talked about a violent world revolution. Václav wants to go to the police, but Eva tries to protect her brother. Marcello begins to endanger them – and at that moment, Václav wakes up from the nightmare, happy that it was just a dream. Eva pacifies him – she has no brother Marcello; her real brother is Omar. Václav suddenly spots a man with a suitcase through the window and the doorbell rings. Everything starts all over again, as if in the dream.
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Cast
Vida Skalská
Eva Dvořáková
Milan Šteindler
Václav Dvořák, Evin manžel
Zdeněk David
Marcello, Evin bratr ve snu
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Film Editor
Production
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Václav Vorlíček (režie), Jiří Macháně (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih), Hana Bezrouková
Cooperation
Songs
Purpura
Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer Jiří SuchýPavlína Filipovská
Made in Italy /Oh Cherie Cherie/
Song Composer Dario FarinaGian Piero Reverberi
Writer of Lyrics Cristiano Minellono
Singer skupina Ricchi e Poveri
Production info
Original Title
Dáreček
Czech Title
Dáreček
English Title
The Little Gift
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
2. ročníkDepartment of Film Directingexercise
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1985
Production Year
1985
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
11 min
Original length in metres
318 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
