Virginity and Prison
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1969Production year
1969Premiere
16 January 1970Runtime
87 minDirector
Václav LohniskýCategory
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Panenství a kriminálCzech title
Panenství a kriminálEnglish title
Virginity and PrisonSummary
The 1969 tragicomedy Panenství a kriminál (Virginity and Prison) is popular actor and successful theatre director Václav Lohniský’s only feature film. Lohniský cast his acting colleague Vladimír Menšík in the leading role of the motion picture, based on a theme and screenplay presented by Rudolf Ráž. Menšík played the upright small-town pharmacist Souška, accused of raping his 16-year-old niece, Lidunka, with some gusto. Despite the assumptions of people in the town, it turns out that the comely Lidunka (Lucie Žulová) is no angel. She seduces the apprentice František (Jiří Vondráček) with whom she’s been flirting for some time, and she won’t make a move to rebut the accusations being made against Souška… Despite its “tangy” motif, this frolicsome comedy with a cynical twist offers quality genre entertainment supported by an excellent cast.
Synopsis
Drugstore manager Souška is a honourable citizen of the little town of Sedlolupy and is to be elected the chairman of the local National Committee. His niece Lidunka is celebrating her sixteenth birthday and forces her beloved uncle to take her with him to Prague. In Prague's famous Lesser Town Café [Malostranská kavárna], the girl finds out that the uncle has a lover in the city, and thus begins to blackmail him a little. Uncle Souška has to spend the evening with her in a nightclub with champagne. On their return late at night, Lidunka tries to seduce the uncle, but he manages to resist and drops the girl in front of her house. The slightly drunk girl, however, does not want to go home yet and thus accepts the invitation of Souška's apprentice František to look at the Moon with him from the attic window. Here, Lidunka provokes the youngster, who has been in love with her for a long time, to make love to her. At home, she suggests by her behaviour that she was violated. Her mother exasperatedly rouses both the authorities and the public opinion. Everybody thinks that the ruffian was Souška. Lidunka does not explain the situation and Souška is arrested and taken to jail. After their night of love, František makes a claim on Lidunka, but she does not want him. The desperate František then writes graffiti all over the little town, admitting his guilt on the loss of Lidunka's virginity. Souška is liberated and boisterously welcomed by his co-citizens. In the evening, his friends make him drunk in a pub and then almost by force push him to the barn where he is expected by no one else but Lidunka.
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Cast
Vladimír Menšík
vedoucí drogerie Karel Souška
Lucie Žulová
Lidunka Kotrbcová, Souškova neteř
Jaroslava Adamová
Soušková, Karlova manželka
Růžena Lysenková
Jiřina Kotrbcová, matka Lidunky
Jiří Vondráček
prodavač František Mrkáček
Jaroslav Moučka
kočí Eda Škutina
Josef Hlinomaz
poručík VB Petříček
Karolina Slunéčková
Souškova milenka zvaná Bambulka
Josefa Pechlátová
Pecháčková
Pavla Maršálková
cukrářka Stříbrná
Karel Fiala
Velký muž
Zdeněk Braunschläger
Malý muž
Karel Augusta
obhájce JUDr. Tomášek
Oldřich Velen
předseda soudu
Otakar Brousek
prokurátor
Ota Žebrák
vězeň Béďa
Ivo Gübel
vězeň Vokřál
Stanislav Vyskočil
Voice by Václav Lohniský
učitel
Bedřich Prokoš
lékař na psychiatrii
Světla Svozilová
prodavačka v mlékárně
Jan Teplý
lékař na středisku
Božena Böhmová
Škutinová
Michal Kazda
syn Souškových
Julius Albert (2)
syn Souškových
Karel Linc
host vinárny, svědek u soudu
Václav Mareš
traktorista
Ladislav Navrátil
plešatý muž v hospodě
Luděk Pilc
advokát
Antonín Soukup
Pecháček
Miloslav Svoboda
hostinský Pepíček
Václav Švec
vrchní v kavárně
Arnošt Faltýnek
přísedící
Jiří Flíček
venkovan
Václav Halama
Josef
Zdeněk Kutil
bachař u soudu
Miloslav Šindler
bachař u soudu
Jiří Hartman
novinář
Lubomír Bryg
číšník
Jaroslav Toms
příslušník SNB
Ivan Vyskočil
mladík
Aleš Morávek
mladý lékař
Erich Fichtner
saniťák
O. Havelková
servírka
A. Pešek
číšník
J. Pleticha
barman
Klusáková
zdravotní sestra
Jozífková
zapisovatelka
Rudolf Hřebec
hudebník
Josef Charvát
hudebník
František Kozohorský
hudebník
Petr Mandel
hudebník
Jaroslav Malý
hudebník
Ladislav Odcházel
hudebník
Ladislav Vondráček
hudebník
Josef Šebetka
hudebník
Josef Sládek (2)
hudebník
František Smejkal
hudebník
Antonín Novák
hudebník
Alois Zouhar
hudebník
Karel Kos
hudebník
Jar. Drážďanský
hudebník
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Zdena Pavlátová
Assistant Director
Continuity
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Assistent Production Designer
Set Designer
Ivo Černý, Miloš Osvald, Jiří Rulík
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Milena Andrejsková, Jaroslav Koucký
Cooperation
Miroslav Pešan (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)
Songs
Jé jé jé jé, co se děje
My jsme děti dvacátého století
Singer mužský sbor
Šly panenky silnicí
Song Composer lidová píseň
Na tom pražském mostě
Song Composer lidová píseň
Production info
Original Title
Panenství a kriminál
Czech Title
Panenství a kriminál
English Title
Virginity and Prison
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1969
Production Year
1969
Production specifications
literary Screenplay approved 18 August 1968
technical Screenplay approved 12 March 1969
start of filming 4 May 1969
end of filming 3 July 1969
projection approval 3 October 1969
the first film copy approved 21 October 1969
withdrawal from distribution 1 April 1983
Premiere
premiere 16 January 1970 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 5 February 1970 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Jalta /5 týdnů/ a Metro /3 týdny/, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Daniel, František Daniel (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
87 min
Original length in metres
2 454 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
