Engineer

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1973

Production year

1973

Runtime

23 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Inženýr

Czech title

Inženýr

English title

Engineer

Synopsis

Student Petr neglects his school attendance. In order to get an apology for missed lectures he starts to work at a construction site. He says to his colleagues that he had to interrupt his studies in order to make money for his sick mother. The workers call him a bit derisively an engineer. One day he meets a young student of economy and he invites her to his home. The girl likes him and so she does not mind that he is not any engineer. But Petr gets drunk and the girl leaves in the end crying. At work the foreman prepares a charge for an earth blast. But the charge doesn't blast. The sulky workers and the foreman go for lunch, only Petr is on sentinel. Petr tries to deactivate the charge but it explodes. Petr is severely injured. He is ashamed for his imprudence and irresponsibility. Therefore he refuses to see his mother, his girlfriend and his colleagues who come to visit him in the hospital. Eventually he thinks everything over and he asks the doctor to invite them all in his room.

Cast

Boris Rösner

Voice by Jiří Wohanka
mladý dělník

Jitka Smutná

Voice by Kateřina Macháčková
studentka ekonomie

Libuše Havelková

Petrova matka

Dana Syslová

lékařka

Josef Koza

mistr na stavbě

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Miloslav Luther

Screenplay

Miloslav Luther

Director of Photography

Ján Piroh

Film Editor

Lili Uševa

Production Manager

Josef Ocman, Karel Fiala

Pedagogical management

Ivan Osvald (dramaturgie), Otakar Vávra (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Vladimír Volf (produkce), Jan Kučera (střih)

Music

Music Composed by

archivní

Music Advisor

Ivo Bláha

Production info

Original Title

Inženýr

Czech Title

Inženýr

English Title

Engineer

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1973

Production Year

1973

Production

Studio FAMU

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

23 min

Original length in metres

637 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

Opening/End credits languages

Czech