Five Men and One Heart
Category
filmGenre
dramaTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Pět mužů a jedno srdceCzech title
Pět mužů a jedno srdceEnglish title
Five Men and One HeartSummary
Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl’s forays into the world of doctors were not merely limited to the popular TV series Nemocnice na kraji města (Hospital on the Edge of Town, 1977). In 1971, he worked on a project combining stylised scenes and real documentary footage. The latter content included heart surgery filmed in the Hradec Králové teaching hospital. Serving as the viewers’ guide in the story is hospital attendant Cajthaml (Josef Hlinomaz), who comments upon the events taking place in one hospital department over 24 hours with a good deal of humour and wonder. A team of surgeons, headed by chief physician Hrůza (Martin Růžek), spend the day attending to a Mr Horáček. The complex operation is not disrupted despite the multitude of day-to-day problems encountered by the individual members of the operating team. Pět mužů a jedno srdce (Five Men and One Heart) serves as the sole feature-film directorial effort from Jan Matějovský, whose main spheres were television and theatre.
Synopsis
The servant Cajthaml comments with humour and affection on both the routine and dramatic events of one day in a hospital where staff are carrying out complicated heart operations. At six o'clock in the morning Cajthaml winds up the tower clock and senior sister Pešková goes off to make her first inspection of the operating theatre. Today they will be operating on the waiter Horáček, whose heart has more or less packed up. The operating team, led by the senior consultant Hrůza, is made up of highly responsible experts, but each of them has his or her own personal problems and cares. Hrůza doesn't want his son, who has not yet completed his education, to get married. Doctor Hýbl, who loves big cars, is worrying about whether to accept the offer of an attractive but very expensive car. Doctor Hofman fancies the young nurse Květa, but thinks he is too old for her, while Doctor Kořalník's wife can't stand her husband's rural Moravian relatives and the theatre nurse Chybová is about to go off on a blind date after answering a lonely hearts ad. Cajthaml imagines decisive ways in which his and their personal problems can be solved. The operation goes well, but the patient Horáček's post-operative complications have an impact on the lives of all the medical staff. The feeling that they have saved the life of a man who can now go back to his family and his work puts their own problems in perspective.
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Cast
Vlastimil Brodský
internista MUDr. Jiří Hýbl
Eduard Cupák
MUDr. Hofman
Josef Hlinomaz
zřízenec Cajthaml
Vladimír Menšík
MUDr. Kořalník, asistent primáře
Nina Divíšková
Lída, Kořalníkova žena
Emma Černá
instrumentářka Věra Chybová
Lubomír Kostelka
anesteziolog MUDr. Jan Kostrhún
Martin Růžek
primář profesor MUDr. Zdeněk Hrůza
Martin Štěpánek
medik Zdeněk, Hrůzův syn
Marie Motlová
vrchní sestra Pešková
Jana Šulcová
zdravotní sestra Květa Provazníková
Jiří Krampol
podvodník Souček
Ctibor Turba
podvodník Polívka
Regina Rázlová
Hasmanová, přítelkyně Zdeňka
Zdeněk Dryšl
pacient Horáček
Hana Kreihanslová
manželka primáře
Jiřina Třebická
redaktorka Zunová z Vlasty
Božena Böhmová
Horáčkova příbuzná
Vašek Mlýnek
otec Kořalník
Ladislav Potměšil
rotný VB
Míla Myslíková
Kujalová, sousedka Chybové
Oldřich Velen
vrchní číšník
Vlastimil Čaněk
pacient
Ladislav Jakim
pacient
Vítězslav Jandák
pacient
Miroslav Jelínek
pacient
Jan Kanyza
pacient
Vladimír Navrátil
pacient
Zdeněk Novotný
pacient
Čestmír Válek
pacient
Karel Fridrich
pacient
Vít Pešina
pacient
Taťána Dvořáčková
tanečnice-svatebčanka
Jarmila Gerlová
tanečnice-svatebčnka
Jitka Hamerníková
tanečnice-svatebčanka
Jitka Kornová
tanečnice-svatebčanka
Zdena Návratová
tanečnice-svatebčanka
Irena Němcová
tanečnice-svatebčanka
Helena Postránecká
tanečnice-svatebčanka
Marta Stropková
tanečnice-svatebčanka
Miloslav Korn
tanečník-svatebčan
Alexej Marmazinský
tanečník-svatebčan
Roman Mihina
tanečník-svatebčan
Jaroslav Šmída
tanečník-svatebčan
Josef Štágr
tanečník-svatebčan
Jiří Urych
tanečník-svatebčan
Vlastimil Zavřel
tanečník-svatebčan
K. Uchytil
tanečník-svatebčan
Karel Hovorka
bratranec
Eugen Jegorov
závodník
MUDr. Kovář
MUDr. Papoušek
Carmen Mayerová
servírka
Vincenc Vávra
funebrák
Jiří Lír
vrátný
Dubbing
Rudolf Pellar
hlas nápadníka Chybové
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
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, Vladimír Ježek, Ladislav Winkelhöfer, Jiří Žebrakovský
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Věra Winkelhöferová, Josef Mojžíš
Unit Production Manager
Vlasta Mathauserová
Consultant
prof. MUDr. Jaroslav Procházka, MUDr. Luděk Barták
Cooperation
Olga Hrčková (klapka), Richard Polák (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Production info
Original Title
Pět mužů a jedno srdce
Czech Title
Pět mužů a jedno srdce
English Title
Five Men and One Heart
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
drama
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1971
Production Year
1970—1971
Production specifications
literary Screenplay approved 5 August 1970
technical Screenplay approved 13 October 1970
start of filming 29 October 1970
end of filming 18 February 1971
the first film copy approved 4 June 1971
projection approval 13 July 1971
withdrawal from distribution 3 October 1983
Premiere
festival premiere 8 October 1971 (22. filmový festival pracujících – podzim ´71)
premiere 24 December 1971 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 6 January 1972 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Sevastopol, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Dramaturgická skupina Zdeňka Dufka, Zdeněk Dufek (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny), Výrobní skupina Ladislava Novotného, Ladislav Novotný (vedoucí výrobní skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
75 min
Original length in metres
2 126 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
Awards
Vítěz
Festival: 4. mezinárodní festival filmů Červeného kříže a zdravotnických filmů Varna
1973
Varna / Bulgaria
Vítěz
Festival: 10. festival českých a slovenských filmů Plzeň
1972
Plzeň / Czechoslovakia
