A young woman, seated in the middle of a room, is reading. A young man, named Pavel, comes in. The two are in fact actors rehearsing a scene of a disagreement between two lovers, Valère and Mariane, from Molière’s comedy Tartuffe. The woman is angry that Pavel came an hour late, complaining that he probably does not care about their work. Valère reproaches Mariane that her father favours the hypocrite Tartuffe. He wants him to marry his daughter although Mariane is not interested in Tartuffe. The relationship between the two actors begins to pervade the rehearsal. Pavel claims that the young actress slept with the director, she blames him for an incorrect approach to the part and for arbitrarily “adapting” Molière’s dialogues. They, however, eventually manage to perform the scene well. Valère tells Mariane that he is leaving and will never come back. But Pavel leaves, too, and the young actress vainly searches for him in the film studios among the backdrops.
herečka hrající Marianu
herec Pavel hrající Valéra
Jaromír Šofr (kamera), Jiří Macháně (kamera)
Helena Daňhelová, Blanka Justinová, Jana Mašíková, Pavel Prokop
Zkouška
Zkouška
The Rehearsal
film
featuretheatrical distributionstudent film
étude
Czechoslovakia
1991
1991
short film
10 min
276 meters
35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: 2. festival FAMU Praha
1992
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Saša Gedeon
Festival: 2. festival FAMU Praha
1992
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Saša Gedeon
Event: Prémie Českého literárního fondu v oblasti filmu za rok 1992
1992
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Saša Gedeon
