The Confession Box
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1928Production year
1928Premiere
12 April 1929Runtime
39 minDirector
Norbert MašekCategory
filmGenre
dramaTypology
featuretheatrical distributionmediumOriginal title
ZpovědniceCzech title
ZpovědniceEnglish title
The Confession BoxSynopsis
A film director is finishing his screenplay. The actors enter the garden of his villa. The first page of the script bears the title: The Confession Box. Two friends, an artist and a writer are walking in the cloisters of a monastery. The writer wants to demonstrate to his friend the mystery of the cloister echoes. In so doing he overhears part of a confession given by a woman and he relises that the voice is his wife's as she confesses to infidelity. The friends leave the monastery, followed by a mysterious woman in a veil. The writer goes into his bedroom - a man's shape is outlined under the bedclothes. He tells his wife that he had heard her confession. He commands that the unknown man resolve the situation with honour... A shot rings out and the woman goes back into the bed chamber. The dead man is his friend, the artist. The writer assures his wife that he was only trying out his new Browning, he gives the key of the bedroom to the valet and he desparts with his wife. - The actors are sitting round a table in the director's garden reading the end of the screenplay.
Note
The film was made on location at the villas of Isida Pruszinská and Dr Mellan.
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Cast
Pavel Rón
spisovatel Antonio
Isida Pruszińská
Laura
Norbert Mašek
malíř
Anka Pulkrábková-Podhorová
komorná
Vilém Vraný
kněz
K. O. Randa
starý sluha
Karel Freytag
mladší sluha
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Christian Winther (Zpovědnice /Skriftestolen/ – novela)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Set Designer
Production info
Original Title
Zpovědnice
Czech Title
Zpovědnice
English Title
The Confession Box
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
drama
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1928
Production Year
1928
Production specifications
date of censorship 9 April 1929
Premiere
premiere 12 April 1929 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Central, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
medium length film
Duration in minutes
39 min
Original length in metres
1 100 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,33
Colour
black & white
Sound
silent
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
without dialogue
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Intertitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
