The film is a documentary debut of a television documentarist and links the story of singer František Kůzle, inspired by the life of leading actor, singer and musician Laďa Kerndl with a record of the live of Czech patriots in Romanian Banat. The solitary František sets out there for his daughter Helena who’d left home. He doesn’t find her, but gets to know the local inhabitants who preserve the Czech language and culture in harsh conditions. He meets with his daughter and they reconcile only after returning home. (Film footage from the archive of Laďa Kerndl).
František Kůzle
Gustav Mlejnek
Helena Kůzlová
Magda Kůzlová
primář
barmanka Maruška
Štefi
Václav
žena s kočárkem
ředitel školy
autodopravce
pracovník rybářství
Alena, Magdina kamarádka
Vlach, Magdin přítel
teta Marjána
Roman Čapek, Miloš Sommer, Jiří Mach (záznam kontaktního zvuku)
Martin Dušek (grafika)
Malina Movie Band, Luboš Malina /kytara, tarogato, píšťaly, banjo/, Stano Palúch /housle, kytara, klavír/, Klaudius Kováč /klavír/, Róbert Ragan /kontrabas/, Peter Solárik /bicí/, Ivo Viktorin /klávesy/, Emil Formánek /kytara/, Laďa Kerndl /bicí/, Milan Kašuba /kytara/, Dušan Reichmann /kontrabas/, Luboš Novotný /lap steel, dobro kytary/, Petr Vavřík /baskytara/, Jiří K. Stivín /bicí, perkuse/, Martin Fridrich /banjo/, Pepa Malina /housle/, Zdeněk Jahoda /mandolína/, Petr Surý /kontrabas/, Peter Rowan /kytara/
Song Composer Luboš Malina
Writer of Lyrics Laďa Kerndl
Song Composer Laďa Kerndl
Writer of Lyrics Laďa Kerndl
Song Composer Luboš Malina
Writer of Lyrics František Gellner
Song Composer Luboš Malina
Writer of Lyrics Bohdan Kaminský
Song Composer Luboš Malina
Writer of Lyrics Karel Hlaváček
Song Composer Láďa Kerndl
Writer of Lyrics Laďa Kerndl
Song Composer Rosanne CashJohn Leventhal
Writer of Lyrics Robert Křesťan
Song Composer Luboš Malina
Song Composer Luboš Malina
Writer of Lyrics Peter Rowan
Ostrov Svaté Heleny
Ostrov Svaté Heleny
Saint Helena Island
film
featuretheatrical distribution
road movie
Czech Republic
2011
2005—2007
start of filming 08/2005
premiere 24 February 2011 /suitable for all ages/ (multiplex Palace Cinemas Slovanský dům, Praha)
A man without a wife, a father without a daughter, a friend without friends.
MgA. Vlastimil Šimůnek, cinemania s.r.o. (koprodukce)
feature film
83 min
DCP 2-D
1:1,78
colour
sound
digital sound
Czech
Czech, Romanian
without subtitles
Czech