Instruction

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1957

Production year

1957

Runtime

10 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Poučení

Czech title

Poučení

English title

Instruction

Synopsis

A woman wearing hair rollers shuffles around a messy flat listening Radovan Lukavský on the radio who is reading the story by Božena Němcová "The Good Person". In the following broadcast the host advises women to try to maintain their loving relationships with their husbands. She advises them to be kind since their spouses are tired from work, and to always look their best. The woman decides to take action. She does her hair and puts on make-up. Then she tidies up the flat and puts perfume on herself and the marital bed. Her husband returns home for dinner after which he intends going out to a meeting. His wife flutters around him and speaks to him in sweet tones. The man is irritated by this unusual behaviour and finally pushes his plate away and gets ready to go out. When the woman tries to stop him, the husband pushes her away coarsely and tells her he has a lover. He slams the door behind him as he leaves.

Cast

Dubbing

Radovan Lukavský

hlas v rozhlase

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Stefanie Grodzieńska

Director of Photography

Stanislav Szomolányi

Pedagogical management

Václav Wasserman (režie), Jan Stallich (kamera), Bohumil Šmída (produkce), Antonín Zelenka (střih)

Music

Music Composed by

archivní

Music Advisor

Jan Malý

Production info

Original Title

Poučení

Czech Title

Poučení

English Title

Instruction

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1957

Production Year

1957

Production

Studio FAMU

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

10 min

Original length in metres

263 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