A guy nicknamed Long-Legs [Dlouhán] takes to flight from the police through the suburban streets. He runs into a small pub and hides behind the beer counter. Soon the gendarmes appear. The ready reply of one of the guests - nicknamed Pock-Marked [Poďobaný] - saves the escapee. The event initiates a discussion among the guests that one sometimes acts somehow without even knowing why. - The first speaker is Smiley [Usměvavý], who suffered an injury in his face during the war, due to which a derisive grin appears on his face any time he is irritated or upset. The grin has already caused him a lot of trouble, even the death of his friend from his native village. - Pock-Marked wanted to steal a golden ring from the finger of a soldier buried under a battlefield. But the hand moved and Pock-Marked began to run instead of helping the injured man. - The publican in turn recalls an event when he was on sentry duty in the army, spotting a Russian soldier going for water. His silhouette reminded him of the dummy from the shooting-range and he automatically fired. Since then, the memory of this event has been chasing him. - Long-Legs threw a bear glass at a speaking deputy and the police are pursuing him for this; he cannot explain his act rationally, either. - A man in black suit, considered by everybody present a nark, introduces himself as a lower clerk anxiously fulfilling the orders of his superior. He used to visit the same café every day for five years, eating four rolls to his coffee, but admitting only two. That very evening, he paid off his debt and therefore feels like a proper citizen - and as such, he reports Long-Legs to the police.
Poďobaný
úředník Bláha
Tonda zvaný Usměvavý
hostinský
Dlouhán, muž na útěku
raněný voják
zajatec Luka Lopuškin, vlastním jménem František Dorazil
brýlatý voják
přednosta úřadu
hostinská
děda v hospodě
Voice by Jindřich Narenta
důstojník u soudu
policista
host v hospodě
dívka na pouti
důstojník-předseda soudu
důstojník
důstojník při výcviku
opilec v hospodě
důstojník
důstojník
důstojník
voják
číšník
raněný
dáma
hostinský
Marie Kaplanová
Josef Kopta (Pět hříšníků U velryby – kniha povídek)
Jiří Cvrček, Ivan Ernyei, Jan Vrňata
Václav Havlík, Karel Hyka, Karel Škorpík
plk. Alois Bíca, mjr. Jaroslav Šebek
Marcela Jakubcová (klapka), Jaroslav Trousil (fotograf), Československá lidová armáda
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Pět hříšníků
Pět hříšníků
The Five Sinners
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia
1964
1963—1964
literary Screenplay approved 19 February 1963
technical Screenplay approved 08/1963
start of filming 9 October 1963
end of filming 18 April 1964
projection approval 29 July 1964
withdrawal from distribution 31 March 1974
premiere 4 December 1964 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Lucerna /2 týdny/, Praha)
premiere 4 December 1964 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Novotný – Kubala, Bedřich Kubala (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Ladislav Novotný (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
73 min
2 077 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech