Escape to Buda

Country

the Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Hungary

Copyright

2002

Production year

2000—2002

Premiere

16 January 2003

Runtime

135 min

Category

film

Genre

psychological

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Útěk do Budína

Czech title

Útěk do Budína

English title

Escape to Buda

Co-production title

Útek do Budína / Szökés Budára

Summary

A film based on the novel by Czech writer Vladislav Vančura. Shortly after Czechoslovakia is created the dandy Tomáš, son of a Slovak landowner, comes to Prague to study law. He gets to know the eccentric Jana, who has a hard time tolerating her bourgeois family. Their lives connect in escaping to Budapest. Later the two lovers take refuge in Slovakia, at Tomáš's father's farm. After the wedding, Jana begins to lose her feelings for Tomáš and instead finds a spiritual kinship with her father-in-law. The family leaves the deteriorating farm to stay with a cousin in Vienna - the owner of an entertainment bar. Only a return to Prague gives them new hope...

Crew and creators

Music

Music Composed by

Funny Fellows, Peter Mankovecký (spolupráce)

Selected Music

Ján Levoslav Bella (Kvinteto d moll), Zdeněk Fibich (Kvarteto op. 11 pro housle a klavír Jasná noc), Zdeněk Fibich (Symfonie č. 2 Tema con variazioni), Josef Bohuslav Foerster (Trio op. 38 Impromptu č. 2 Elegie pro housle), Franz Schmidt (Kvinteto B dur), Vítězslav Novák (Serenáda F dur), Vítězslav Novák (Slovácká suita op. 32)

Music Selected by

Ivan Marton, Miloslav Luther

Choreographer

Dagmar Puobišová

Songs

Posedenie v Daxe

Song Composer I. Zeljenka

Sní

Song Composer Ľubomír Burgr

Sniežik poletuje, na zem pomaly si sadá...

Song Composer L. Burger

Production info

Original Title

Útěk do Budína

Czech Title

Útěk do Budína

English Title

Escape to Buda

Co-production Title

Útek do Budína / Szökés Budára

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

psychological

Origin country

the Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Hungary

Copyright

2002

Production Year

2000—2002

Production specifications

start of filming 11/2000
end of filming 06/2002

Premiere

premiere 16 January 2003 /recommended for 12 and over/ (kino Illusion, Praha)

Distribution slogan

Desire gave them wings, passion grounded them.

Production

Ars Media s. r. o., Česká televize, TS Alice Nemanské a Heleny Slavíkové (Česká televize), Slovenská televízia, A Tivoli-Filmprodukció Kft.

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

135 min

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,66

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

Dolby Stereo, Dolby Spectral Recording

Versions

Slovak

Dialogue languages

Czech, Slovak, Hungarian

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Slovak