The Bomb
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1957Production year
1957Premiere
17 January 1958Runtime
81 minDirector
Jaroslav BalíkCategory
filmGenre
dramaTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
BombaCzech title
BombaEnglish title
The BombSynopsis
Master mason Vokáč heads the construction works near the hospital. Daily he encounters problems at work, and his colleagues' difficulties are also troubling him. Bricklayer Prokop needs a flat or his wife and children will run away from him. Pregnant Lída is suffering because good looking Anča is seducing her husband Jarda Sejk. Vokáč's wife also complains that her husband doesn't spend much time at home. One day, Jarda finds an unexploded time bomb at the building site. The attempts to defuse the bomb fail and it has to be taken out of the city. Vokáč, Sejk, Prokop and a driver, whose wife and daughter died in an air raid over the city near the end of the war, take up the dangerous task. The car is driving through the empty streets while the people hide, waiting in terror for the explosion. And those, who were dissatisfied and critical towards the others only a while ago, suddenly realize their small-mindedness. The men unload the bomb and escape from the explosion in time. At that very moment a child is born to Lída in the maternity hospital that was at risk from the bomb and in which the doctors persevered to help the child into the world. Human courage and solidarity won.
Note
The film was based on a real event.
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Cast
Zdeněk Štěpánek
zednický mistr František Vokáč
Světla Amortová
Vokáčova žena
Gustav Heverle
řidič Zach
Vladimír Hrubý
závozník
Otto Lackovič
buldozerista Jarda Sejk
Marie Kyselková
Lída, Sejkova žena
Rudolf Deyl ml.
zedník Toník Prokop
Vlasta Chramostová
Helena, Prokopova žena
Zdeněk Chudáček
Jenda, starší syn Prokopových
Stanislav Poláček
Olda, mladší syn Prokopových
Jana Štěpánková
Anča Černá
Svatopluk Majer
hostinský, Ančin otec
Martin Růžek
zedník Krahulík
František Vnouček
zedník Perlešín
Vlastimil Brodský
zedník Zajíc
Hermína Vojtová
Prokopova matka
Miroslav Zounar
pyrotechnik, poručík
Vladimír Huber
strážmistr SNB Pepík Čech
Arnošt Faltýnek
vrátný v nemocnici
Ilja Prachař
lékař
Josef Svátek
primář
Jan Víšek
příslušník SNB
Vlasta Jelínková
Voice by Hermína Vojtová
ošetřovatelka v porodnici
Jiří Kostka
dělník na stavbě
Josef Šidlichovský
řidič sanitky
Čestmír Řanda
zedník
Helena Růžičková
utíkající pacientka
Václav Vorlíček
dělník na stavbě
Antonín Rýdl
hlídač
Emil Dlesk
host v hospodě
Jiří Růžička
plačící kojenec
Eliška Ciklová
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Libuše Junková, Jan Mimra, Václav Vorlíček
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Assistent Production Designer
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
Special Effects
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Consultant
MUDr. Miroslav Kos
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Songs
Plují lodi do Triany
Song Composer Jan F. Fischer
Writer of Lyrics Jan F. FischerOlga Fischerová
Singer Martin RůžekFrantišek VnoučekVlastimil Brodský
Cestářská
Song Composer lidová starofrancouzská píseňJiří Straka /úprava/
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Straka
Singer sbor
Production info
Original Title
Bomba
Czech Title
Bomba
English Title
The Bomb
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
drama
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1957
Production Year
1957
Production specifications
projection approval 3 December 1957
withdrawal from distribution 30 November 1968
Premiere
preview 10 January 1958 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 17 January 1958 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Moskva /2 týdny/, Světozor /3 týdny/ a Svornost /1 týden od 31. 1./, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Kabelík, Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Kunc (dokončení), Vladimír Kabelík (vedoucí tvůrčí skupiny), František Břetislav Kunc (vedoucí tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí tvůrčí skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
81 min
Original length in metres
2 313 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 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: 11. mezinárodní filmový festival Locarno
1958
Locarno / Switzerland
