This 1965 military-themed love story from director Zbyněk Brynych is based on a short story by Milan Uhde. Soldier Standa Urban is unable to attend a date with his girlfriend due to an emergency at the airport. The lovers have been separated for a long time, and the understanding captain Pazourek permits the date to take place in secret – in the army’s infirmary. But the lovers’ date still faces plenty of obstacles… Standa is portrayed by Josef Čáp. However, for audiences, DAMU theatre school student Jaroslava Obermaierová’s portrayal of Jana served as the main attraction. Thanks to (for the time) several sexually explicit scenes, the debuting 19-year-old actress achieved the status of a 1960s-era sex symbol.
Private Standa Urban is one of a group of disappointed soldiers who had been planning to go on leave from a military airfield. He is supposed to be having an important meeting with his great love Jana, who has come to the nearest little town to see him. They have not seen each other for some time and Standa is afraid for the relationship. Unfortunately a second-degree alert has been sounded and the soldiers are not allowed to leave the garrison. The unhappy Standa volunteers for guard duty. Captain Pazourek seems very severe but in fact he is an understanding man. He sends an ambulance with two nurses, Veleba and Rejman, for the girl, and they secretly smuggle her into the sick bay. The attractive blonde becomes the centre of unwanted attention from the soldiers, and before his friends have found Standa, she has become disgusted with the whole adventure. She even has to flee from a drunken cook. The whole plot is nearly discovered by the officious Lieutenant Toneiser, who would have turned it into a scandal. But everything turns out well. Standa and Jana enjoy a beautiful intimate moment, and although they are interrupted by an emergency alert, Standa now knows that he will not lose Jana. The next day the girl manages to escape from the barracks, once again stowed away in an ambulance.
vojín Standa Urban
svobodník Jarda Veleba zvaný Velebníček
vojín Rejman zvaný Klobouk
poručík Toneiser
svobodník Vyskočil, dozorčí roty
lékař nadporučík Březina
kapitán Pazourek
vojín Samek
pokojská
kuchař Augustin
Jiří Polák (2)
Milan Uhde (Ošetřovna – novela)
Viktor Fixl, Karel Kočí
Zdeňka Černá, Ladislav Dražan
pplk. František Říčka , pplk. Václav Pospíšil
Miroslava Vopěnková (klapka), Karel Ješátko (fotograf)
Song Composer Karel Kopecký
Writer of Lyrics Jindřich Faktor
Singer Karel Kopecký
Song Composer skupina The Beatles
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Štaidl
Singer Vladimír PucholtJiří Wimmer
Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer Jan Libíček
Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer Jiří Suchý
Singer Vladimír PucholtJiří Wimmer
Souhvězdí Panny
Souhvězdí Panny
Constellation of the Virgo
Ošetřovna
film
featuretheatrical distribution
romantic
Czechoslovakia
1965
1965
literary Screenplay approved 4 September 1964
technical Screenplay approved 8 June 1965
start of filming 29 June 1965
end of filming 8 September 1965
projection approval 17 November 1965
withdrawal from distribution 14 October 1966
premiere 23 September 1966 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina 64 U Hradeb /1 týden/ a Světozor /5 týdnů od 11. 11./, Praha)
premiere 14 October 1966 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Fikar, Ladislav Fikar (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
83 min
2 371 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66, 1:2,35
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech