The Skyscraper of Love

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1967

Production year

1967

Runtime

8 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Mrakodrap lásky

Czech title

Mrakodrap lásky

English title

The Skyscraper of Love

Synopsis

A tidy girl, dressed up for the occasion, sits by a set-up table. The doorbell rings, but the jolly young man who breaks inside holding a bottle apparently came unwanted. The photo of a completely different man's face is stuck behind the frame of the mirror in the room. The young man claims that he remembers the date of the girl's birthday, but she corrects him dryly - this birthday of hers is not the nineteenth but twentieth. The youth keeps on boasting with what pomp he himself spent his twentieth birthday. The girl briefly reminds him that at that time, he was in the army. She, however, somehow melts upon recalling how they used to build an imaginary skyscraper of love of wooden cubes, but then again turns away from the boy in indifference. The youth takes his bottle, finishes his cigarette on the polished plate on the set table and the door shuts behind him.

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Jiří Polák

Screenplay

Jiří Polák

Director of Photography

Vladimír Smutný

Sound Designer

Jiří Podroužek

Production Manager

Hana Jehličková, Karel Fiala

Pedagogical management

Bořivoj Zeman (režie), Václav Hanuš (kamera), Radovan Lukavský, Jan Chaloupek (střih), Bohumil Šmída (produkce)

Production info

Original Title

Mrakodrap lásky

Czech Title

Mrakodrap lásky

English Title

The Skyscraper of Love

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1967

Production Year

1967

Production

Studio FAMU

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

8 min

Original length in metres

228 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