Ash Wednesday
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Popeleční středaCzech title
Popeleční středaEnglish title
Ash WednesdaySynopsis
A young woman called Sofia lures an older man out to a small, secluded chapel. The arrival of two armed men, Verchovenski and Stavrogin, interrupts their loving bliss. Verchovenski starts beating up the older man, forcing him to admit to something. He calls him Viktor but the assaulted man denies being called Viktor and claims to be the local doctor. Sofia now makes love to Stavrogin also. The battered man manages to get hold of the guns and shoots the two assailants. The film ends with a sequence from St Luke's Gospel about the Gadarene swine, which drown in a lake after being entered by the demons that Christ has cast out of a possessed man.
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Cast
Naďa Urbánková
Sofie
Bořivoj Navrátil
Petr Verchovenský
Ivo Livonec
Stavrogin
Miloslav Vajnar
městský doktor
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij (Běsi /Besy/ – román)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Karel Kachyňa (režie), Václav Hanuš (kamera), Josef Dobřichovský (střih)
Production info
Original Title
Popeleční středa
Czech Title
Popeleční středa
English Title
Ash Wednesday
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1970
Production Year
1970
Production
Copyright Holders
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
18 min
Original length in metres
500 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,66
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Intertitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
