Green Horizons

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1962

Production year

1961—1962

Premiere

7 September 1962

Runtime

103 min

Director

Ivo Novák

Category

film

Genre

drama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Zelené obzory

Czech title

Zelené obzory

English title

Green Horizons

Synopsis

Ondřej Kubata, severely wounded young man, manager of an agricultural farm, struggles through the forest. In between the strikes of pain and weakness, he recalls the events preceding the injury. In winter, Ondřej arrived to manage the farm in the village of Hůrka, finding a horrible mess and a bunch of hostile and lazy employees. He succeeds to tame a runaway horse whom the drunk whip Opluštil failed to handle. When another whip, Varga, beat his wife in drunkenness the next day, Ondřej stood up for her. Most of the villagers were employed in the nearby big quarry and parquet-producing factory, and there was thus a lack of labour for the farm. The feeders Tancoš and Cimler, whose respect Ondřej gained by successfully managing the confinement of the best cow, became his best support. Ondřej began to be fond of Cimler's daughter Marta, the local teacher. Marta, however, was in love with the married manager of the quarry, Haničinec. Ondřej, on the contrary, failed to notice the infatuation of seventeen-year old student Jana. In spring, Ondřej decided to get hay from the yet uncultivated mountain meadows. The farm slowly began to prosper. The local people appreciated this, but the young manager's uncompromising behaviour also won him several dangerous enemies. One night, on his way to a distant cowshed, three drunk men spied upon him and injured him severely in a consequent fight. Ondřej is taken away by an ambulance. The whole village gathers around the car, headed by the weeping Jana.

Cast

Petr Kostka

správce zemědělské farmy Ing. Ondřej Kubata

Jana Brejchová

studentka Jana Musílková

Marie Tomášová

učitelka Marta Cimlerová

Václav Lohniský

krmič Cimler, Martin otec

Netta Deborská

Voice by Marcela Sedláčková
Cimlerová, Martina matka

Josef Patočka

předseda MNV Jan Musílek, Janin otec

Jiří Holý

kočí Varga

Alena Kreuzmannová

Vargova žena

Zlatomír Vacek

krmič Tancoš

Radovan Lukavský

ředitel lomu Karel Haničinec

Otomar Krejča

ředitel státního statku Jošt

Jiří Kostka

Ondřejův otec

Václav Sloup

kameník Standa

Svatava Hubeňáková

hostinská Čápová

Milan Kindl

Voice by Mirko Musil
kočí Opluštil

Vladimír Hlavatý

hlídač zvaný Cigareta

Jan Skopeček

tajemník, člen komise

Ferdinand Krůta

Voice by Zdeněk Braunschläger
inženýr, člen komise

Emil Rohan

nádražní zřízenec

Rudolf Vodrážka

člen národního výboru

Jan Maška

účetní

Josef Koza

družstevník na Moravě

Otto Budín

výpravčí

Zdeněk Kutil

řidič nákladního auta Pavera

Karel Čížek

kameník

Crew and creators

Director

Ivo Novák

Second Unit Director

Květa Ondráková

Assistant Director

Dagmar Zelenková

Based on

Jan Procházka (Zelené obzory – novela)

Shooting Script

Ivo Novák

Director of Photography

Václav Hanuš

Second Unit Photography

Jaroslav Kupšík

Camera Operator

Antonín Vojáček

Production Designer

Karel Škvor

Assistent Production Designer

Oldřich Okáč

Set Designer

Jan David (2), Emanuel Dvořáček, Eva Slívová

Costume Designer

Svatava Sophová

Film Editor

Jan Chaloupek

Assistant Film Editor

Libuše Vaněčková

Sound Designer

Bedřich Poledník, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)

Special Effects

Trikový ateliér FSB

Production Manager

Jiří Krejčí

Unit Production Manager

Václav Dobeš, Vlasta Kolbasová, Josef Mojžíš

Unit Production Manager

Karel Čabrádek

Cooperation

Ivana Strahovská (klapka), J. Knapová (klapka), František Mališ (vrchní osvětlovač), Miloslav Mirvald (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Zdeněk Liška

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)

Songs

Čerešničky, čerešničky, čerešně

Singer dětský sbor

Zvědavý vítr

Singer ženský hlas

Production info

Original Title

Zelené obzory

Czech Title

Zelené obzory

English Title

Green Horizons

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

drama

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1962

Production Year

1961—1962

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 17 May 1961
technical Screenplay approved 31 July 1961
start of filming 17 August 1961
end of filming 8 May 1962
projection approval 20 June 1962
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1975

Premiere

premiere 7 September 1962 /suitable for youths/ (kino Blaník /4 týdny/, Praha)
premiere 7 September 1962 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Creative Group

Tvůrčí skupina Švabík – Procházka, Jan Procházka (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Erich Švabík (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

103 min

Original length in metres

2 926 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,85, 1:2,35

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: 5. festival českých a slovenských filmů Ústí nad Labem

1963
Ústí nad Labem / Czechoslovakia
Petr Kostka

Vítěz

Event: Státní ceny za rok 1962

1963
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Jan Procházka

Vítěz

Festival: 5. festival českých a slovenských filmů Ústí nad Labem

1963
Ústí nad Labem / Czechoslovakia
Ivo Novák

Vítěz

Festival: 5. festival českých a slovenských filmů Ústí nad Labem

1963
Ústí nad Labem / Czechoslovakia

Vítěz

Festival: 13. filmový festival pracujících

1962
25 měst / Czechoslovakia

Vítěz

Festival: 13. filmový festival pracujících

1962
25 měst / Czechoslovakia
Zdeněk Liška