Forecast: Zero

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1966

Production year

1966

Runtime

50 min

Director

Elo Havetta

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmmedium

Original title

Předpověď: nula

Czech title

Předpověď: nula

English title

Forecast: Zero

Working title

Předpověď: 0

Synopsis

A tram pasted with posters travels through Prague. The mounted loudspeakers invite passers-by to a series of concerts of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpieces. On the tram, a party of young people is getting drunk. They all either work or study, but they hang out together at parties and restaurants. Irena fancies the photographer Pavelka but he prefers the waitress Alena. Petr alias Sunny [Sluníčko] lives in a trailer at the bank of Vltava and is practising for an original theatre performance of his own. He has shaved his head and when he gets drunk, his friends paint a picture of the Sun on it. Their relationships are very liberal and so when Irena gets pregnant she and Pavelka discuss whether she should raise her child as a single mother. Pavelka denies that he is the father of her child. When the party visit the cabaret at the U Fleků tavern, they all laugh at the decadent humour. Irena is the only one who doesn't laugh. She grows sad when she hears a joke about a knocked up car and a "knocked up" daughter. A television crew wants to do a feature on Petr but he is unsure about it and finally kicks them out. Alena has lost her job as a waitress and works as a cleaning woman. In a fierce argument, she admits to Pavelka that she went to bed with somebody else too...

Cast

Jan Bartoš

fotograf Pavelka

Gabriela Zoubková

číšnice Alena

Jaroslav Karabec

Liška

Václav Dušek (2)

Petr zvaný Sluníčko

Otto Wachsmann

Pilát

Jiří Stehno

redaktor Šebesta

Petr Čunderlík

Ťulínek

Emilie Dvořáčková

herečka

Jaroslav Štercl

maestro Stupido

Jarmila Krejčíková

kolenatá Marie

Zdeněk Kotoulek

televizní pracovník

Ludvík Čermák

televizní pracovník

Josef Hýbler

hospodský

Petr Kubiska

čundrák

Lubomír Čermák

Petra Brandýsová

Crew and creators

Director

Elo Havetta

Screenstory

Lubor Dohnal

Screenplay

Lubor Dohnal

Director of Photography

Igor Luther

Production Designer

Aleš Voleman

Film Editor

Alois Fišárek

Production Manager

Radomír Hubáček

Pedagogical management

Vladislav Delong (režie), Karel Kachyňa, Bohumil Šmída (produkce), Ján Šmok (kamera), Jan Kučera (střih)

Music

Music Composed by

Josef Ceremuga

Selected Music

Giuseppe Verdi (Trubadúr /sbor Cikánů/ – opera), Giuseppe Verdi (Aida /pochod/ – opera), Giuseppe Verdi (Nabucco /sbor židovských otroků/ – opera), Antonín Dvořák (Jakobín /My cizinou jsme bloudili/ – opera)

Songs

Dva modré balonky

Song Composer Bedřich Nikodem

My cizinou jsme bloudili

Song Composer Antonín Dvořák
Writer of Lyrics Marie Červinková-Riegrová
Singer sbor

Vem košilku mezi zuby

Singer sbor

Schody do nebe

Song Composer Karel Kopecký
Writer of Lyrics Jindřich Faktor
Singer Jan Bartoš

Production info

Original Title

Předpověď: nula

Czech Title

Předpověď: nula

English Title

Forecast: Zero

Working Title

Předpověď: 0

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1966

Production Year

1966

Production

Studio FAMU

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

50 min

Original length in metres

1 436 meters

Distribution carrier

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