Trickster

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1964

Production year

1964

Runtime

17 min

Category

povídka

Genre

children, short-story

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Podvodnice

Czech title

Podvodnice

English title

Trickster

povídkový film

Tales about Children

Synopsis

Little Jarmila is getting ready for school. She is not too orderly and her mum has to remind her several times to tidy up her room. The two of them part on the street. As soon as the mother vanishes around the corner, the girl takes her schoolbag off her back. She tells all her girlfriends in class that she is allowed to carry her bag in her hand instead of her back. Before the class begins she runs off to a shoe shop window and admires a dreamed-of pair of children's shoes. It is almost eight o'clock and Jarmila, still in the school dressing room, gets an idea. She runs down to the boiler-room and chucks her worn-out sandals behind the pipes. After the class, she does a little play-acting in front of her teacher and other children about how she has lost her shoes. The mother, who has come to take Jarmila home, comforts her little daughter. Then they go to the shop together and the girl gets the shoes she so much wanted. The mother must do some more shopping and Jarmila goes home on her own. She stops at every shop window to admire her new shoes. At home, she realizes what she has done and finally bursts into tears.

Cast

Erika Gaertnerová

Jarmila Sejková

Eva Kopecká

učitelka

Miroslav Kadeřábek

soused v lavici

Vladimír Horka

osmiletý chlapec

Hana Doušová

holčička-cvalík

Šárka Blažková

holčička-drbna

Zuzana Pišnová

holčička-drbna

Alice Menšlová

holčička-drbna

Zdeňka Černá

holčička

Vladimíra Houdková

holčička

Miroslava Prellová

holčička

Marie Straková

holčička

Michaela Nohelová

dívka

Crew and creators

Assistant Director

Jiří Hraběta

Screenstory

Jan Procházka

Screenplay

Jan Procházka

Shooting Script

Jaromír Dvořáček

Director of Photography

Josef Vaniš

Second Unit Photography

Václav Helliman

Camera Operator

Bohumil Vodička

Production Designer

Vladimír Labský, Milan Nejedlý

Assistent Production Designer

Marta Kaplerová

Costume Designer

Libuše Hozová

Assistant Film Editor

Eva Lichtensteinová

Sound Designer

Jiří Lenoch, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)

Production Manager

Jaroslav Kučera

Unit Production Manager

Pavel Krůta, Hubert Novotný, Jiří Ulrich

Cooperation

Jiřina Brandejsová (klapka)

Music

Music Composed by

Jan Novák

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Jazzový orchestr Československého rozhlasu (Music Conducted by Karel Krautgartner)

Production info

Original Title

Podvodnice

Czech Title

Podvodnice

English Title

Trickster

Category

povídka

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

children, short-story

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1964

Production Year

1964

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 5 April 1963
start of filming 9 January 1964
technical Screenplay approved 11 May 1964
end of filming 18 August 1964

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

17 min

Original length in metres

470 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