Directive
Category
filmGenre
satireTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
DirektivaCzech title
DirektivaEnglish title
DirectiveSynopsis
The Socialist Youth Choir is going to a festival in Warsaw. For the newly wedded Jílek couple, songwriter Václav and singer Věra, this is going to be a wedding trip. In the last moment, secretary of the festival committee, Kukla, arrives on the platform and cancels Václav's participation in the festival. He appoints the songwriter Strnad instead, getting him onto the train against his will. Věra, who wants to stay in Prague, is persuaded by her colleagues to go. The reason for Jílek's withdrawal is a certain sign of discontent with his songs, expressed by someone 'from a high position' somewhere once in front of Mihule, president of the festival committee. Strnad's wife is unhappy because her husband was supposed to have an urgent gall-bladder operation. The phone-calls amongst the officials result in blocking the publication of Jílek's song lyrics. Strnad returns home after having a gall-bladder attack. Jílek is supposed to fly to Warsaw but is called off again. Then a positive review of his lyrics is broadcast on the radio and published in the Rudé právo newspaper, and the situation changes. The book is published after all, and Václav can finally go. At the railway station, he is meeting the ensemble which is already on its way back.
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Cast
Zdeněk Dítě
Mihule, předseda festivalového výboru
Vlastimil Brodský
Kukla, tajemník výboru
Vladimír Hrubý
textař Strnad
Jana Werichová
Strnadova žena
Miloš Kopecký
redaktor hudebního nakladatelství Válel
Bohuslav Drozd
textař Václav Jílek
Miriam Hynková
Věra, Jílkova žena
Marie Staňková
delegátka festivalu
Jiřina Bohdalová
delegátka festivalu
E. Handzalová
delegátka festivalu
Pavel Bártl
Jirka
Karel Fiala
letištní stráž
Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Jaroslav Vondra
Pedagogical management
Miroslav Hubáček (režie), Jaroslav Tuzar (kamera), Bohumil Šmída (produkce), Jan Kučera (střih)
Music
Music Composed by
Production info
Original Title
Direktiva
Czech Title
Direktiva
English Title
Directive
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
satire
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1955
Production Year
1955
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
22 min
Original length in metres
620 meters
Distribution carrier
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
