The Pike in a Fish Pond
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1951Production year
1950—1951Premiere
14 March 1952Runtime
73 minDirector
Vladimír ČechCategory
filmGenre
socialist-realism, comedyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Štika v rybníceCzech title
Štika v rybníceEnglish title
The Pike in a Fish PondSynopsis
Two young men - mason Franta and worker Béla - meet two girls - Mařka and Vlasta, on a picnic. The young men don't suspect that these are two trainees from the nearby masonry boarding-school for girls. They are all very surprised when they meet after a while on a building site where the girls begin working as trained masons. Franta really likes the beautiful and hard-working Mařka and their relationship slowly grows into love. It happens that Mařka works in the group of Franta's father, mason Doubrava. He doesn't like the innovations which the girl would like to introduce in their work. Still, Doubrava is a reasonable man. He manages to improve the work of an excellent but very lazy mason, Bureš. He also handles well his daughter Žofka's decision to train at the boarding-school to become a mason. When he sees how building "in threesomes" helped them finish the work on the thirteenth group of houses that was getting behind schedule, old Doubrava grows pleased with the innovations. The old and the young start working together with joy, looking forward to their future.
Photos
Cast
Jaroslav Vojta
zednický mistr František Doubrava
Ludmila Vendlová
zednička Mařka Dudková
Josef Pehr
Franta, Doubravův syn
Eman Fiala
zedník Alois Bureš
Jana Hrdličková
Žofka, Doubravova dcera
Táňa Hodanová
Marie, Doubravova žena
Otakar Vážanský
svažeč cikán Béla
Lydie Filová
Vlasta Cachová, Mařčina přítelkyně
Marie Brožová
Dufková, Mařčina teta
Ota Motyčka
zedník Hora
Miloš Patočka
svažeč Láďa Jiráček
Josef Kemr
valcíř Chaloupka
Fanda Mrázek
holič
Květa Fialová
zednička Lída
Marie Axlerová
zednička Eva
J. O. Martin
polír Sýkora
Bohuš Hradil
předseda závodní rady
Bedřich Prokoš
instruktor Souček
Augustin Lanča
hlídač na stavbě
Emanuel Appelt
lékař
Jindřich Doležal
majitel vily
Lubor Tokoš
rozhlasový reportér
Jindra Hermanová
žena zedníka Bureše
Jan S. Kolár
inženýr
Dagmar Frýbortová
vedoucí interátu
Vlasta Vlasáková
zednička z internátu
František Klika
zahradník Datel
Josef Najman
starý zedník
Jaroslav Prokop
zedník-mistr
Anna Kadeřábková
žena obsluhující vrátek
Arna Pekárková
starší žena
Dagmar Hyková
Adlerová
Brabencová
Čermáková
Hlinková
Holečková
Julišová
Olga Komárková
Anna Konvičková
Kovařovicová
Lebedová
Linhartová
Landovská
Nová
Ludmila Naarová
Obrovská
Dagmar Pecháčková
Samohelová
zednička
Tikalová
zednička
Tobischová
zednička
Vavrušková
zednička
Helena Veselá
zednička
Zemanová
zednička
Žitná
zednička
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Based on
Karel Stanislav (Stavěli zedníci – divadelní hra)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Jaroslav Kupšík, Bedřich Baťka
Production Designer
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Antonín Dekoj, Jaroslav Prokop, Ctibor Novotný
Cooperation
Oldřich Nový (umělecká spolupráce), Josef Janoušek (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by Otakar Pařík), Český pěvecký sbor (Music Conducted by Jan Kühn)
Songs
Zednická polka
Song Composer Jaroslav Křička
Writer of Lyrics František Hrubín
Singer sbor
Hejsa hopsa
Singer ženský sbor
Production info
Original Title
Štika v rybníce
Czech Title
Štika v rybníce
English Title
The Pike in a Fish Pond
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
socialist-realism, comedy
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1951
Production Year
1950—1951
Production specifications
start of filming 10/1950
the first film copy approved 29 December 1951
date of censorship 9 January 1952 (konec povolení k promítání 9. 1. 1957)
withdrawal from distribution 3 November 1960
Premiere
premiere 14 March 1952 /suitable for youths/ (kina Armádní /3 týdny/ a Blaník /3 týdny/, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
X. tvůrčí kolektiv Oldřicha Nového, Oldřich Nový (vedoucí X. tvůrčího kolektivu)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
73 min
Original length in metres
2 087 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
