The Bottles

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1964

Production year

1964

Runtime

19 min

Category

film

Genre

children, morality

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Láhve

Czech title

Láhve

English title

The Bottles

Synopsis

It is a hot summer holidays day. Three boys, a little girl and their dog Voříšek all hang about waiting for the shift to end on a housing estate building site so that the workers will leave. Then they sneak through a hole in the fence and search the entire place for beer bottles, so that they can claim the bottle deposit money and buy lemonade. Then they find out that the old watchman is angry with the builders for not returning the bottles. He earns some money on the side by providing drinks for the builders and will lose his deposit for all the bottles that are missing. Voříšek runs around and the watchman catches him. The children decide to go and get their dog and offer to help the old man find the bottles. The watchman is pleased, especially when the boys take his heavy crates all the way to the shop in a handcart. In the evening, the children all go home and their joint forays seem to have lost their meaning.

Cast

L. H. Struna

hlídač

Ludmila Knapková

dívka

Jiří Kuděla

kluk

Crew and creators

Assistant Director

Marta Novotná

Screenstory

Josef Prošek

Screenplay

Bohumil Svoboda

Director of Photography

Jiří Kolín

Camera Operator

Rudolf Červenka

Production Designer

Jiří Hlupý

Set Designer

František Santarius

Costume Designer

K. Rusková

Assistant Film Editor

Marie Vrlová

Sound Designer

František Strangmüller, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)

Production Manager

Zdeněk Stibor

Unit Production Manager

Vojtěch Kunčík

Music

Music Composed by

Emil Ludvík

Music Performed by

FISYO

Songs

Sluníčko

Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer Jiří Tabak

Production info

Original Title

Láhve

Czech Title

Láhve

English Title

The Bottles

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

children, morality

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1964

Production Year

1964

Production specifications

projection approval 21 March 1964

Premiere

premiere 6 November 1964 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 25 December 1964 /suitable for youths/ (kina Tatra /1 týden/ a Dalibor /1 týden od 25. 12./, Praha)

Distribution slogan

no caption

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

19 min

Original length in metres

547 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech