Vertigo

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1962

Production year

1962

Premiere

8 February 1963

Runtime

82 min

Category

film

Genre

psychological

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Závrať

Czech title

Závrať

English title

Vertigo

Synopsis

In Moldava in the Ore Mountains, a group of geologists searches for tin ore. They live and eat in a small hotel headed by widower Martin, helped by his seventeen-year old daughter Božka. Božka falls in love with driver Gába and tries to stop his frequent trips to visit girls in a nearby city with various "intentional acts". Gába first does not show any interest in the girl, but gradually begins to succumb to her youthful innocent love and one day kisses her. He, however, again spends the evening with an accidental acquaintance. Upon his return, he sadly watches Božka and her friends dancing at a party. When the party is over, Gába finds the girl in his room. At that instant, he realizes he really loves her, but nevertheless sends her away. When he wakes up in the morning, the little hotel is empty. Everybody has gone to the railway station to say good-bye to Božka leaving for Prague to study. Gába runs after them, but it is already too late...

Cast

Eva Šolcová

Božka Martinová

Petr Skála

Voice by Karel Hlušička
řidič Gabriel zvaný Gába

Oldřich Velen

geolog Basař

Jaroslav Radimecký

hospodský Martin, Božčin otec

Karel Hospodský

vedoucí geologů Ing. Pernikl

Míla Myslíková

opuštěná žena

Petr Dufek

tanečník

Iva Váchová

tanečnice

Jiří Tuček

svobodník

A. Bartáková

žena v paneláku

Crew and creators

Second Unit Director

Jaromír Dvořáček

Assistant Director

Lubomír Břinčil

Based on

Jan Procházka (Závrať – novela)

Director of Photography

Josef Vaniš

Second Unit Photography

Stanislav Milota

Camera Operator

Václav Helliman

Production Designer

Karel Černý

Assistent Production Designer

Miloš Červinka

Set Designer

Roman Svoboda, Ladislav Winkelhöfer, Jan Štrébl

Costume Designer

Lída Novotná

Film Editor

Jan Chaloupek

Assistant Film Editor

Jana Šimůnková

Sound Designer

Jiří Lenoch, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty), Jiří Kejř

Production Manager

Antonín Bedřich

Unit Production Manager

František Štěpánek, Jiří Ulrich

Unit Production Manager

Otto Renelt

Cooperation

Jana Beránková (klapka), Karel Šebík (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Jan Novák

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Gustava Broma

Songs

Po starých zámeckých schodech

Song Composer Karel Hašler
Writer of Lyrics Karel Hašler
Singer sbor

To bylo v háji, v měsíci máji

Singer sbor

Jazzová píseň

Singer Helena Blehárová

Production info

Original Title

Závrať

Czech Title

Závrať

English Title

Vertigo

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

psychological

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1962

Production Year

1962

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 27 February 1962
technical Screenplay approved 10 May 1962
start of filming 23 May 1962
end of filming 7 September 1962
projection approval 5 December 1962
withdrawal from distribution 6 April 1973
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1992

Premiere

premiere 8 February 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 12 February 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Blaník /3½ týdne/, Květen /1 týden od 8. 3./, Orient /1 týden od 15. 3./, Aero /1 týden od 22. 3./, Svornost /1 týden od 29. 3./, Veletrhy /1 týden od 5. 4./, Pilotů /1 týden od 12. 4./, Sofia /½ týdne od 26. 4./, Eden /½ týdne od 10. 5./, Jiskra ½ týdne od 17. 5./, Orlík /½ týdne od 24. 5./ a Ořechovka /½ týdne od 14. 6./, Praha)
renewed premiere 1 September 1990 /suitable for youths/

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Studio

Barrandov

Distribution

Ústřední půjčovna filmů (původní 1963 a obnovená 1990)

Creative Group

Tvůrčí skupina Novotný – Kubala, Bedřich Kubala (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Ladislav Novotný (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

82 min

Original length in metres

2 333 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,66, 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