A House to Demolish
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Dům na zbouráníCzech title
Dům na zbouráníEnglish title
A House to DemolishSynopsis
A severely wounded girl is taken to a window in a hospital corridor by an assistant. A glass bead reminds her of her past. On a summer’s day, she attracted the attention of a red-haired boy who was hopelessly trying to fly a kite in windless weather. The girl balanced on a rail leading through the landscape and bushes. She told the boy that she lived alone in a decayed railway house. Her mother ran away with a brakeman and her father started drinking. Her sister, who she admired for her talent to throw widely popular parties, had a bad reputation. The rumours went that she slept with every railman who visited their house. But now, she is dead. The girl also recollected the sister’s burial where her coffin was carried by totally drunken men in railway uniforms. She herself had many dreams and plans, although she was broke and lived on what she found in the garbage. She conditioned fulfilling her dreams by walking a certain distance on the rail. Buried in her dreams, she failed to hear the approaching train and the departing boy did not manage to warn her. Now, the girl is in a wheelchair, she has no legs and is apparently dying.
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Cast
Dagmar Olivová
dívka
Jiří Racek
zrzavý kluk
Patrik Jílek
Sidney
Jitka Foltýnová
Alice
Vlastimil Šifner
skupina Kavalíři
železničáři
Commentary
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Based on
Tennessee Williams (Dům na zbourání /The Property Is Condemned/ – divadelní aktovka)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Special Effects
Special Effects
Production Manager
Consultant
Vlastimil Šifner
Pedagogical management
Václav Vorlíček (režie), Miloš Zábranský, Jan Kališ (kamera), Josef Valušiak (střih), Jiří Moudrý (zvuk), Jaromír Kallista (produkce)
Cooperation
Jiří Dejm, Dušan Kovář
Music
Music Composed by
Choreographer
Songs
Noční motýl
Song Composer Johann Strauss ml.
Writer of Lyrics K. M. Walló
Singer Míla Spazierová-HezkáDagmar Olivová
Production info
Original Title
Dům na zbourání
Czech Title
Dům na zbourání
English Title
A House to Demolish
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1991
Production Year
1991
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
17 min
Original length in metres
468 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:2,35
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
