After school, thirteen-year old Jitka likes to wander alone through Prague. The brisk girl also likes to sneak around the backyards surrounding the block of flats where she lives. One day, she discovers a high wall and a hospital garden behind it. It is summer and every afternoon, the nurses bring a young man bound to a wheelchair after an injury to the garden. Jitka begins to encourage the young man in his attempts to walk. The incongruous couple begins to have a friendly talk every day and Jitka always brings various cobblestones as a gift. The young man is depressed by the state of his health and is not all the time gracious to Jitka. The misunderstanding gets sorted up and the girl talks about her role as Snow White in a school performance. She promises the young man to present herself in her costume. The subsequent rains, however, interrupt the girl's visits. As soon as the sun finally shines out, Jitka runs to the hospital, buying two ice creams on the way - only to find the patient sitting on a garden bench with a young woman, the couple immersed in an intimate conversation. Jitka, disappointed in her childish love, runs away from the garden, but waits to burst into tears until she is behind the wall. Soon, she finds an abandoned tabby and takes it into her arms. It seems she will forget about her childhood sorrow very soon.
Jitka
nemocný mladík
Jitčina matka
domovník
ošetřovatelka
zřízenec
Láďa, Jitčin bratr
dívka
kluk
Karel Kracík, Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Jiří Lenoch, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
Miroslava Vopěnková (klapka), Jindřich Panáček (fotograf)
Ludwig van Beethoven (klavírní skladba a moll Pro Elišku /Für Elise/ – převzatá)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Vysoká zeď
Vysoká zeď
The High Wall
film
featuretheatrical distribution
lyrical
Czechoslovakia
1963
1963
literary Screenplay approved 10 June 1963
technical Screenplay approved 31 July 1963
start of filming 13 August 1963
end of filming 2 December 1963
projection approval 11 February 1964
withdrawal from distribution 6 April 1973
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1992
preview 5 June 1964 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 12 June 1964 /suitable for youths/ (kino Paříž /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 19 June 1964 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
renewed premiere 1 March 1990 /suitable for youths/
Ústřední půjčovna filmů (původní 1964 a obnovená 1990)
Tvůrčí skupina Švabík – Procházka, Jan Procházka (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Erich Švabík (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
69 min
1 976 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: 17. mezinárodní filmový festival Locarno
1964
Locarno / Switzerland