Karolina, a student at the FAMU film school, must soon deliver a script, but the fairhaired girl has no inspiration. She gets inspired by an old cabinet in the room and pictures from the last holiday, on which she was with her friend – the fashion photographer, Federik. The cabinet could be a magic box and it could bring one without visa or passport to anywhere. Federico would get into in Italy and, in a moment, he would leave the box in the garden of a house in Lesser Town in Prague. Then he would walk with Karolina through Prague. He would definitely see dancing girls there, where tourists are strolling. He is, as all Italians, a light-headed women-lover and artist. Karolina leaves for Carlsbad to the international student film festival called CILECT. Its eighth year is just running at the Thermal hotel. Federico finds her there again. In return, he invites Karolina to Italy. They enjoy walks in Venice and Rome. They also visit a film studio together, where they say hello to the famous actor, Alberto Sordi. Karolina hands over the first version of her script and her teacher warns her about the fast approaching "final" deadline. In Italy, Federico escapes from two men looking like mafia. Thanks to the spell, he transmits himself to the Prague outskirts. But the empty cabinet is destroyed by a bulldozer. Karolina invites him to the Strahov stadium, where Federico can admire thousands of beautiful women performing exercises at the national gymnastics festival Spartakiad.
studentka FAMU Karolina
Federico
Roberto
domovnice
on sám, italský herec
on sám, profesor FAMU
on sám, italský scenárista a režisér
Žanda Frýdová, Bruno D'Annunzio, Jan Mudra, Jaki Rener, Jiří Chlumský, Francois Proia
Angela Anichini, Alena Nosková
Martin Zaradička
Francesca Aurigemma, Barbara Bellini, Luca Luttazzi, Jakub Mejdřický, obyvatelé Arce, Itálie, obyvatelé Fontana Liri, Itálie, Marina Proto, Vasil Stanko, Jindra Trepková, Carlo Ventura
Kouzelná skříň
Kouzelná skříň
The Magic Cupboard
Armádio magico
film
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
étude
Czechoslovakia, Italy
1987
1987
short film
20 min
220 meters
16mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, Italian
without subtitles
Czech, Italian
