Poloniny Love

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1938

Production year

1938

Runtime

18 min

Category

film

Genre

melodrama, agitprop

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Film state

partially realised project

Original title

Poloninské milování

Czech title

Poloninské milování

English title

Poloniny Love

Summary

Unfinished film.

Synopsis

Poloniny – landscape shots, grazing cattle, running horses, wooden cottages sheepfolds on the hills, women in folk costumes gather and wash their clothes in the river. Cows on the hillside. A love affair develops between a young boy and a girl. The band plays folk instruments, boys and girls in folk costumes dance in a round and in pairs. A woman arrives with a rooster in her arms. The rooster is scared away and the band and all the dancers follow him. (According to the part of the which has survived)

Note

A short film from the life of highlanders promoting the natural beauties, folk life and folk costumes of Carpathian Ruthenia. It was filmed at the turn of August and September 1938 with actors of the Uzhhorod Zemské Theatre and with local types of highlanders and highlanders. It was produced in the Huculean dialect and according to the press it was the first sound Huculean film in Czechoslovakia. The films remained unfinished as the negative of the film was damaged in the laboratories. The producer planned to shoot the film again next year, but this did not happen due to the changed political situation. Only less than 300 metres unedited scenes without sound exist.

Cast

Vladimír Libovický

horal Michaljo Petruk

Varka Lagatošová

horalka Marika

Marijka Klemšuvová

horalka Iljana

Olena Klemšuvová

horalka

Marijka Klemšuvová st.

horalka, Maričina matka

Crew and creators

Based on

Karel Bejsta (Poloninské milování – povídka)

Screenplay

Miro Bernat

Director of Photography

Čeněk Zahradníček

Locations

Podkarpatská Rus, Jasiňa (Podkarpatská Rus), Potisí (Podkarpatská Rus), Rachov (Podkarpatská Rus), řeka Tulje (Podkarpatská Rus)

Production info

Original Title

Poloninské milování

Czech Title

Poloninské milování

English Title

Poloniny Love

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Film state

partially realised project

Genre

melodrama, agitprop

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1938

Production Year

1938

Production specifications

date of censorship (nepředloženo cenzuře)
start of filming 08/1938
end of filming 09/1938

Premiere

premiere (neproběhla)

Production

Václav Švarc

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

18 min

Original length in metres

500 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

Tobis – Klang

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Rusyn

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech

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