A group of jolly young people work in the Prague Tesla factory, also spending most of their leisure time together. One of them, guitar player Zdeněk, begins to shun his friends' company. He has fallen in love with Věra, who does not belong to the group. The happy-go-lucky young man already has several acquaintances and has his own method to get a girl: to take his motorcycle, his guitar and a bottle of wine and take her to a rented houseboat. Věra, however, is different and gets angry at Zdeněk. But she is fond of him and thus eventually spends a whole evening with him on the houseboat. At a preventative medical examination, the doctor tells Věra she is pregnant. The young couple is helpless in the matter. Zdeněk is to leave for military service soon, they both are yet to finish their adult education classes, and therefore decide for abortion. None of them, however, is happy. Zdeněk is moreover afraid of losing Věra after the operation. He runs to the hospital and takes her away at the last moment.
Věra Petráková
Zdeněk Jelínek
Věřina matka
Věřin otec
Zdeňkova matka
Daniela
Zejda
Fanda, Zdeňkův bratr
Jitka, Věřina kamarádka
Pavel, Jitčin přítel
Ruda
Standa
Jirka
Alena
Eva
manžel Věřiny spolužačky
tanečník
správcová
Jarka
Vašek
Ferda
prodavač automobilů
montér v prodejně automobilů
profesor večerní školy
vojenský lékař
Ajka
žena v čekárně
příslušník SNB
lékařka
muž vykloněný z auta
branec
Miloslav Dvořák, Jan Drvota, Miroslav Fára
František Strangmüller, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
Antonín Kubový, Karel Prchal
Jordan Balurov
Marie Koubková (klapka), Jitka Bylinská (fotografka)
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček), Orchestr Karla Vlacha (Music Conducted by Karel Vlach)
Song Composer tradicionál
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Štaidl
Singer sbor
Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer sbor
Singer Ema Navrátilová
Život bez kytary
Život bez kytary
Life without a Guitar
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia
1962
1962
literary Screenplay approved 3 January 1962
technical Screenplay approved 18 May 1962
start of filming 7 June 1962
end of filming 24 September 1962
projection approval 23 November 1962
withdrawal from distribution 6 April 1973
preview 15 February 1963 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 22 February 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Pasáž /3 týdny/, Praha)
premiere 22 February 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Fikar, Ladislav Fikar (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
86 min
2 446 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
