Tram to Poděbrady

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1987

Production year

1986

Runtime

32 min

Category

povídka

Genre

short-story

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionmedium

Original title

Tramvaj do Poděbrad

Czech title

Tramvaj do Poděbrad

English title

Tram to Poděbrady

Synopsis

A post office in the Prague suburbs is robbed by a young punk. A tram X substitutes for the regular line due to a subway breakdown. Its driver, Arnošt, likes to joke with passengers who ask about the changed direction that he is going to the Poděbrady spa. The company on the tram is rather mixed: a codger pampering a bottle of slivovitz, home-made plum brandy, a married couple, a post-office robber as well as a popular singer who loses a one-hundred crown banknote which he wanted to change. Fans of the football clubs Sparta and Slávie cause a riot. At the terminal stop, the robber threatens the tram driver with a gun. The tram, now containing only the slivovitz codger and a black foreigner with a dog, takes another direction than where the dispatcher sends it, and it soon disappears. Arnošt's last words on the walkie-talkie say that he has been kidnapped and is going to Poděbrady. The tram dashes through the dark and is passed by an equal carriage going in the opposite direction. In the early morning, the tram stands in the centre of Poděbrady. The thief runs away but he gets to a subway tunnel and in the station, Jiří of Poděbrady is arrested. The leap in time and space ends and the tram is in Prague again.

Crew and creators

Production info

Original Title

Tramvaj do Poděbrad

Czech Title

Tramvaj do Poděbrad

English Title

Tram to Poděbrady

Category

povídka

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

short-story

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1987

Production Year

1986

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

32 min

Original length in metres

911 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech