Jaroslav Mach’s 1971 feature examines the impact of divorce on children. The protagonist of this feature is engineer Kalista, who, since his divorce, has only seldom seen his 11-year-old daughter Jana. Kalista decides to marry his twenty-years-younger lover Eva, who wants to introduce the future step-daughter to her parents. However, Eva’s parents do not approve of the marriage, unhappy that Eva has destroyed Kalista’s family. The potential bridegroom’s divorced sister, meanwhile, disapproves of Eva. The leading roles in this unremarkable feature are played by Svatopluk Matyáš (Kalista), Regina Rázlová (Eva) and Milena Dvorská (Olga). Non-actor Zdena Machálková portrays young Jana. Radovan Lukavský employs charisma and moral authority in the role of Eva’s gamekeeper father.
A divorced technician Milan Kalista spends two weekends a month with his daughter, an eleven years old Jana. Jana has made up with the fact her father does not live with them anymore. She does not know, however, her father is not going to return to them, as he loves a young girl Eva whom he is going to marry as soon as possible. Before the set wedding date Eva decides to meet Jana and introduce her and Milan to her parents. She considers her mother's birthday a good occasion. A common encounter in a gamekeeper's house does not turn out up to Eva's fancy. The parents give the visitors a constrained or even cold welcome. They do not like Eva destroyed a marriage with a child. Also Eva's sister Olga is strangely impervious. Only Jana enjoys the new interesting place with Olga's son Arnošt. Everything suddenly turns different when Jana learns from Arnošt Eva and her Dad are going to marry. To calm the unhappy girl, the boy tells her about his and his mom's sorrow - also his father left them for another woman. Jana runs away from the gamekeeper's house and goes home alone by bus. Olga, touched, reproaches Eva that she behaved the same way as the woman who took her husband away from her. Milan feels unpleasant in Eva's parents' house and when he learns about his daughter's runaway, he sets out for her together with Eva. They run out of petrol on their way and have a row. Milan leaves Eva in a stuck car and goes back to Prague by hitchhiking. He waits for Jana at the bus station and promises he will never tell lies to her any longer.
inženýr Milan Kalista
Jana, Kalistova dcerka
Eva, Kalistova milenka
hajný Kraus, Evin otec
Krausova žena, Evina matka
učitelka Olga, Evina sestra
Arnošt, Olžin syn
strážný v továrně
řidič
Karbus
závozník
sousedka
sousedka
Milan Štěch, František Jaderník
Václav Polák
Irena Hrušková (klapka), Jaroslav Trousil (fotograf)
Antonín Dvořák (Slovanské tance)
Lucký Štěpán, FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Tatínek na neděli
Tatínek na neděli
Daddy for Sunday
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy, family
Czechoslovakia
1971
1970
end of filming 16 February 1970
literary Screenplay approved 27 July 1970
technical Screenplay approved 22 August 1970
start of filming 21 September 1970
the first film copy approved 23 April 1971
projection approval 30 April 1971
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1986
premiere 17 September 1971 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 16 September 1972 /suitable for youths/ (kino Hvězda, Praha)
Dramaturgická skupina Vojtěcha Cacha, Vojtěch Cach (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny), Výrobní skupina Jiřího Šebora, Jiří Šebor (vedoucí výrobní skupiny)
feature film
66 min
1 859 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech