The Progress Hotel

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1955

Production year

1955

Runtime

11 min

Director

Hysen Hakani

Category

film

Genre

étude, satire

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Hotel Pokrok

Czech title

Hotel Pokrok

English title

The Progress Hotel

Synopsis

Two night visitors wake up the sleeping porter in a hotel and he very politely shows them into a room where there is even a dinner waiting. The porter falls back to sleep happily. But then a telephone call wakes him up and he realizes that the expected guest has just arrived and will be in the hotel before long. The porter wakes the two night visitors up and rudely tells them to leave the room. The angry men are unwillingly getting dressed. They find out from the chambermaid, who is bringing in the new dinner, that an inspector has been expected to arrive for the last three days. The porter brings the new guest in. But he is a tolerant man and there are three beds in the room so the other two guests can also stay. After the porter leaves, the guests introduce themselves. The first two visitors are agronomists, and the newcomer is a vet. It is obvious that he is also not the inspector. The men start laughing at the situation but they stop as they suddenly realize that they could be told to leave again. A female voice behind the door calms them down. It is the voice of the inspector, who has lived incognito in the hotel for three days already.

Cast

Eman Fiala

vrátný v hotelu Pokrok

Jiří Sovák

agronom Kaňka, hotelový host

Vlastimil Brodský

agronom Novák, hotelový host

Josef Beyvl

zvěrolékař Řehoř, hotelový host

V. Herainová

pokojská

Crew and creators

Director

Hysen Hakani

Assistant Director

Frank Beyer

Screenplay

Hysen Hakani

Director of Photography

Vladimír Opletal

Production Manager

Otto Vymer, Miroslava Jasná

Pedagogical management

Václav Wasserman (režie), Vladimír Novotný (kamera), Bohumil Šmída (produkce), Antonín Zelenka (střih)

Cooperation

A. Turečková

Music

Music Composed by

Jan Malý

Production info

Original Title

Hotel Pokrok

Czech Title

Hotel Pokrok

English Title

The Progress Hotel

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude, satire

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1955

Production Year

1955

Production

Studio FAMU

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

11 min

Original length in metres

309 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