The plasterer Mirek Helebrandt and the post-office car driver Helena Dobiášová meet over a minor car crash. Mirek is after Helena a lot, however, the girl's behaviour is restrained. She hides from him that she is a single mother with a little son, who is sometimes cared for by her uncle. Also the young waitress Jana falls in love with Mirek. Helena is invited for lunch at Mirek's parents. Before that, Mirek visits her for the first time in her appartment. When Helena explains that the boy in the photograph is her son, Mirek is taken by surprise and rejects her explanation that she was too young when she delivered the child. In the evening, Mirek gets drunk at a dancing party. After all the guests leave, Jana reveals to him her feelings. In that instance the young man realizes that Helena used to be equally confused and as much in love as Jana today. He goes back to Helena who was even considering leaving her son at her uncle's for ever. The son, little Petřík, returns home. Seeing a strange man in the appartment, he turns away and runs off. Helena runs out to the street to catch him and Mirek joins her.
řidička Helena Dobiášová
fasádník Mirek Helebrandt
Petřík, Helenin syn
servírka Jana
fasádník Cína
fasádník děda Vališ
číšník Helebrandt, Mirkův otec
Helenina sousedka Kalousová
prodavačka Helebrandtová, Mirkova matka
veterinář MVDr. Tachezy
strýc Tylínek
Sláva Luňáček, Mirkův kamarád
garážmistr Rudolf Poláček
Věra, Poláčkova žena
Jarošová, Helenina sousedka
Jonášová, Helenina sousedka
pošťačka Hanka
Kalous
řidič Karel Freit
hluchý soused Robert Jaroš
Helenina sousedka Stárková
Eva, manželka Slávy Luňáčka
sázející fanda fotbalu
Standa z garáží
železničář
příslušník SNB na úřadě
otec Niké
žena se psy u veterináře
Jan Pařík (fotograf)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Karla Krautgartnera (Music Conducted by Karel Krautgartner)
Song Composer Jiří Sternwald
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Kohout
Singer Jiří Vala
Žižkovská romance
Žižkovská romance
A Local Romance
Sbohem, smutku!
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama, romantic
Czechoslovakia
1957
1957
literary Screenplay approved 24 April 1957
technical Screenplay approved 22 June 1957
start of filming 30 August 1957
end of filming 10 November 1957
projection approval 25 March 1958
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1973
preview 2 May 1958 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 9 May 1958 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Moskva /4 týdny/, Flora /1 týden/, Aero /1 týden/, Kyjev /1 týden od 16. 5./ a Oko /1 týden od 30. 5./, Praha)
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Kunc, František Břetislav Kunc (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
98 min
2 777 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech