Young Bear-Leaders

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1957

Production year

1957

Premiere

25 December 1957

Runtime

64 min

Category

film

Genre

children

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Malí medvědáři

Czech title

Malí medvědáři

English title

Young Bear-Leaders

Synopsis

Young Pepík Bureš is growing up in the zoo where his mother works as an attendant. Pepík grows fond of the bear known as Brumla and, together with his elder brother Zdeněk and friend Vojta, they offer to help the bear-keeper Kaláb with his work. One day a group of Vietnamese children visit the zoo and bring with them a gift - a baby elephant. In return, they are to take Brumla back with them. Pepík cannot part with the little bear and decides to hide it. He flees the zoo taking Brumla with him, however, the little bear gets up to all sorts of trouble and keeps running away from Pepík. In the end the boy realizes that this was not a good idea and he brings Brumla back. At the party organized for the Vietnamese children he, himself, hands over Brumla to the little girl Zue. The little elephant brought over by the Vietnamese children is named after Pepík who now has a new friend.

Cast

Gustav Heverle

ošetřovatel v ZOO Kaláb

Dana Medřická

zaměstnankyně v ZOO Burešová

Bohuš Záhorský

zvěrolékař

Vojtěch Rosenberg

Pepík, syn Burešové

Jiří Kříž

Vojta, Pepíkův kamarád

Václav Postránecký

Zdeněk, syn Burešové, Pepíkův bratr

Vladimír Bejval

Franta, Kalábův syn

Cran Thi Hien

Zue

Vladimír Brabec

vychovatel dětského domova

Vladimír Dvořák

návštěvník ZOO, přísný otec holčičky

Vladimír Hrubý

zaměstnanec u opic

Josef Král

ošetřovatel v ZOO

Luba Skořepová

matka s kočárkem

vietnamské děti z Dětského domova v Chrastavě

Crew and creators

Director of Photography

Václav Hanuš, Jaromír Holpuch

Production Designer

Karel Černý

Set Designer

Karel Baštýř, Josef Dvořák, František Zajíček

Make-Up Artist

Josef Mann

Sound Designer

Jiří Lenoch

Production Manager

Ladislav Terš

Unit Production Manager

Rudolf Wolf

Unit Production Manager

Ferdinand Zelenka

Consultant

Bohumil Krinert, Luong Van Tich

Cooperation

zaměstnanci Zoologické zahrady Praha

Music

Music Composed by

Alexej Fried

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)

Production info

Original Title

Malí medvědáři

Czech Title

Malí medvědáři

English Title

Young Bear-Leaders

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

children

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1957

Production Year

1957

Production specifications

projection approval 26 November 1957
withdrawal from distribution 31 August 1976

Premiere

premiere 25 December 1957 /suitable for youths/ (kino Mladých /1⅓ týdne/, Praha)

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Studio

Barrandov

Creative Group

Tvůrčí skupina Hanuš – Träger, Ladislav Hanuš (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny), Josef Träger (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

64 min

Original length in metres

1 833 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech, Vietnamese

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech