Solitude
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
SamotaCzech title
SamotaEnglish title
SolitudeWorking title
V příroděSummary
An old friend visits a married couple.
Synopsis
A young married couple live in solitude in the country. In the mornings, the man leaves with a chainsaw to work in the forest. The woman makes the bed and cleans the house. She is happy about the visit of their family friend. Her husband is keen, too, and shows the friend the entire large farmstead. Everything is quite dilapidated but that is a challenge to the owner. Saving the old house brings him the feeling of continuity with the past and he has the courage to restore it. But the young woman puts on a jacket over her dress and goes to the forest to weep her troubles away – it seems apparent that the solitude was not her choice. They spend the evening drinking wine. When the friend leaves for the toilet, the wife asks her husband if he loves her. He answers more soothingly than lovingly. At night, the woman sneaks out off the bedroom and goes up to the sleeping friend. The husband wordlessly watches her leaving. The friend is asleep and the woman sits on his bed. The visitor leaves the next morning. The woman sadly leans against the wall of the house. The man sits in the forest on an uprooted tree.
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Cast
Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production
Production Manager
Consultant
Pedagogical management
Věra Chytilová (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Jiří Beránek, Vladimír Skall (zvuk)
Cooperation
David Kerbach, František Kölbel, Nike Papadopulos, Pavel Prokop, J. Havel
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
René Pařez /kytara/, Jiří Šedivý /kytara/
Production info
Original Title
Samota
Czech Title
Samota
English Title
Solitude
Working Title
V přírodě
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czech Republic
Copyright
1993
Production Year
1993
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
14 min
Original length in metres
389 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,66
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
