Sin of God
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Hřích bohaCzech title
Hřích bohaEnglish title
Sin of GodSynopsis
The chambermaid Arina has a love-affair with the porter Sergei Infantich, nicknamed Serega. She gets pregnant and delivers twins, whom she puts into an orphanage. Now she is pregnant again. Serega, however, is called to the army for four years. The simple but reasonable Arina knows she would grow old and worn out from other pregnancies before her lover would return - as a chambermaid, she is well aware that she must be freely available to the hotel guests. She contemplates marrying one of her wooers, all of them already old men. She asks God for help and advice and he gives her Alfréd, one of his angels, as a husband for four years who definitely will not make her pregnant. The happy Arina feeds Alfréd and makes him drunk on vodka. When the delicate young angel falls on a bed in drunkenness, Arina, driven by lust, lays next to him - but so clumsily that she lays over him and smothers him with her big belly. The wooers are not interested in marrying Arina any more, wanting just her body. The desperate woman reproaches God for the miserable life he had prepared for her. God tries to apologize on his knees but the devastated woman rejects his apology.
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Cast
Jaroslava Pokorná
pokojská Arina
František Kovářík
pánbůh
Jaroslav Neduha
muž v čepici
Ivan Pokorný
jeden z andělů
Klos
Bouzek
Machalka
Geissler
Commentary
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Isaak Babel (Ježíšův hřích – povídka)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Karel Kachyňa (scénář), Jan Kališ (kamera), Vladislav Delong (režie), Josef Dobřichovský (střih)
Music
Selected Music
Carl Orff (opera Carmina burana)
Production info
Original Title
Hřích boha
Czech Title
Hřích boha
English Title
Sin of God
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1969
Production Year
1969
Production
Copyright Holders
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
23 min
Original length in metres
641 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
