Marta Koutová longs to become a pianist. But when her father's pharmacy is taken over by the state her dream dissolves. Her embittered father doesn't wish her to receive a scholarship. Kout takes it hard that he lost his pharmacy and wants to secure Marta's future by marrying her to the rich Karel. But Marta meets draughtsman Jirka and marries him against her father's will. Jirka studies and works at the same time and has no time for his wife so the young marriage goes into deep crisis several months after the wedding. The crisis becomes even deeper when Jirka has to take a job outside Prague after finishing his studies. Marta is lonely and moves back with her father and even meets with Karel a few times. Jirka finds out about this and asks Marta to meet him. However, Kout comes to this meeting instead of her, telling Jirka without Marta's consent that his daughter doesn't want to see him any more. Marta passively accepts Karel's attention but after a weekend spent together in Karlovy Vary she gets to know his bad side. She runs back to Jirka whom she still loves but he refuses her. In despair, Marta tries to kill herself. Later on in the hospital the couple finally reconcile and the father stops interfering with their love.
lékárník Kout
prodavačka Marta, Koutova dcera
kreslič Jirka Kučera, Martin manželka
Ing. Karel Kadlec, vedoucí autoopravny
lékárnice Věra, Martina přítelkyně
herečka Jiřina
Irena, Karlova sekretářka
Vostrý
Marie, Martina švagrová
Jožka, Martin švagr
Věřina matka
vedoucí prodejny hudebních nástrojů
Mrázek
lékař
Pavel
Petr
kupec auta Kadavý
inženýr na stavbě
promotor
kupec klavíru
vrchní v kavárně
tanečník ve vinárně
sousedka
zákaznice v hudebních nástrojích
nájemnice
soused
Alena Svozilová (2), Otakar Fuka
Josef Suk (Radúz a Mahulena /lyrická suita/)
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)
Útěk ze stínu
Útěk ze stínu
Escape from the Shadow
Noční služba / Všechny zvony světa
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia
1958
1958
literary Screenplay approved 26 February 1958
technical Screenplay approved 25 June 1958
start of filming 7 July 1958
end of filming 22 October 1958
projection approval 13 January 1959
withdrawal from distribution 1 June 1976
preview 27 February 1959 (kino Sevastopol /1 týdenú, Praha)
premiere 6 March 1959 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Lucerna /4 týdny/, Dukla /1 týden/, Flora /1 týden/, Kyjev /1 týden/, Mír /1 týden/, Revoluce /1 týden/, Vzlet /1 týden/ a Arbes /1 týden od 13. 3./, Praha)
renewed premiere 21 May 1971 /unsuitable for youths/
Ústřední půjčovna filmů (původní 1959 a obnovená 1971)
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Kunc, František Břetislav Kunc (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
94 min
2 669 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: 1. festival českých a slovenských filmů Banská Bystrica
1959
Banská Bystrica / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 1. mezinárodní filmový festival Moskva
1959
Moskva / Union of Soviet Socialist Republics