A Date at Half Past Three

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1957

Production year

1957

Runtime

21 min

Category

film

Genre

short-story

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Schůzka o půl čtvrté...

Czech title

Schůzka o půl čtvrté...

English title

A Date at Half Past Three

Synopsis

Student Jana is invited on a first date by her fellow-student Miloš. They are going to meet at half past three at Little Square. Jana is restless and leaves her house already at three o'clock. Her mother, not suspecting anything, believes that her daughter is going to a girlfriend's house. She asks Jana to buy her some coffee on the way back. When she gets to the building's hall Jana takes off her ordinary sweater under which she is wearing a smart blouse, changes into a new pair of shoes and puts on some lipstick. She doesn't want to come too early so she walks around Old Town. She refuses the advances of a young shop-assistant in a grocery and the courting of an older dandy. She bumps into the greengroces František's wooden carriage by accident and causes an unwanted commotion among people. She finally has to run across several streets so as to casually walk over to the meeting-place where Miloš is already waiting.

Cast

Věra Schubertová

studentka Jana Zvolská

Libuše Havelková

Janina matka

Zdeněk Řehoř

prodavač v potravinách

Alena Karešová

prodavačka v potravinách

Josef Kemr

František

Rudolf Myzet

starší seladon

Jiří Beránek

student Miloš

Arnošt Faltýnek

vedoucí prodejny zeleniny

Jiří Smutný

muž v rádiovce ?

Zuzana Plášková

Janina spolužačka

Commentary

Crew and creators

Assistant Director

Pavel Pospíšil, Garik Seko

Screenstory

Karel Cop

Screenplay

Karel Cop

Director of Photography

Jozef Grussmann

Make-Up Artist

Karel Holek

Production Manager

Lavoslav Reichl, Jiří Kamarýt

Pedagogical management

Bořivoj Zeman (režie), Vladimír Novotný (kamera), Bohumil Šmída (produkce), Antonín Zelenka (střih)

Music

Music Composed by

Svatopluk Havelka

Production info

Original Title

Schůzka o půl čtvrté...

Czech Title

Schůzka o půl čtvrté...

English Title

A Date at Half Past Three

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

short-story

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

21 min

Original length in metres

578 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

Awards

Vítěz

Festival: 6. světový festival mládeže a studentstva Moskva

1957
Moskva / Union of Soviet Socialist Republics