Six O'Clock at the Airport

Country

Czechoslovakia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Copyright

1957

Production year

1957

Premiere

7 March 1958

Runtime

71 min

Director

Čeněk Duba

Category

film

Genre

children

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

V šest ráno na letišti

Czech title

V šest ráno na letišti

English title

Six O'Clock at the Airport

Co-production title

Udivitělnoje voskresenije

Synopsis

At the Ruzyně airport, Pepíček Dušek and his group of young pioneers welcome the foreign delegation travelling through Prague to join the 6th International Youth Festival in Moscow. He mixes with the travellers and gets onto their plane by accident. Before he manages to get off, the plane takes off and Pepíček lands in Moscow. He notices a forgotten suitcase on the airport platform. He wants to return it to the owner but he finds himself in a crowd of Soviet pioneers and is taken to the city with them. There he meets the Russian boy Míša and with his help searches for the mysterious Mr Bláha, who, judging by its label, should be the owner of the suitcase. The suitcase opens by accident and the boys conclude from its contents that Bláha must be a diversionist. Trying to trace him, Pepíček and Míša witness the happenings of the multinational Festival. There is a search for the Czech boy. A taxi-driver recognizes Pepíček from a radio description and drives both boys to the airport. On their way, they notice Bláha performing as a juggler in the Czechoslovak programme. The secret of his suitcase is explained. On a TU-104 plane, Pepíček returns home even before his parents and brother arrive.

Cast

Mark Berněs

kapitán letadla

Nikolaj Krjučkov

taxikář

Tomáš Sedláček

Pepíček Dušek

Vladimir Silujanov

Míša Fjodorov

Lilija Judina /ž/

letuška

Elza Ležděj /ž/

letuška

Vasilij Něščiplenko

pilot

Jana Dítětová

reportérka z televize

Miroslav Homola

kouzelník

Stanislav Fišer

Jirka, Pepíčkův bratr

Izolda Izvickaja

letuška

L. Lobov

letovod

D. Tichomirovova

letuška

Crew and creators

Director

Čeněk Duba

Second Unit Director

Ilja Gurin

Assistant Director

Stanislav Strnad

Shooting Script

Čeněk Duba

Director of Photography

Jaromír Holpuch

Second Unit Photography

Josef Čepelák

Production Designer

Luděk Škuta

Assistent Production Designer

Jaroslav Krška

Set Designer

František Suchý, Jaroslava Vilímková

Make-Up Artist

Oldřich Mach

Film Editor

Antonín Zelenka

Assistant Film Editor

Vilemína Prokopová

Sound Designer

František Fabián

Special Effects

Trikový ateliér FSB

Production Manager

Ladislav Hanuš, Osip Kolodnyj

Unit Production Manager

Josef Pitrák, Jevgenij Planskov

Unit Production Manager

Mark Šapir, Zdeňka Černá

Music

Music Composed by

Anatolij Lepin

Music Performed by

Orchestr Hlavní správy kinematografie SSSR (Music Conducted by Grigorij Gamburg)

Writer of Lyrics

O. Fadějeva

Production info

Original Title

V šest ráno na letišti

Czech Title

V šest ráno na letišti

English Title

Six O'Clock at the Airport

Co-production Title

Udivitělnoje voskresenije

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

children

Origin country

Czechoslovakia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Copyright

1957

Production Year

1957

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 18 July 1957
start of filming 28 July 1957
technical Screenplay approved 1 August 1957
end of filming 8 November 1957
projection approval 4 February 1958
withdrawal from distribution 30 June 1972

Premiere

preview 8 February 1958 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 7 March 1958 /suitable for youths/ (kina Lucerna /2 týdny/, Svornost /1 týden/ a Oko /1 týden od 14. 3./, 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

71 min

Original length in metres

2 010 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech, Russian

Subtitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech