Sport?

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1973

Production year

1973

Runtime

7 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Sport?

Czech title

Sport?

English title

Sport?

Synopsis

Two gamblers at cards invite a foreigner to join them in the back room of a pub. They play pontoon and the exotic looking stranger, who speaks only English, keeps losing at first. His comment is that it's only a sport. Soon, the situation reverses. The younger of the two men is apparently an addicted gambler; he does not want to stop despite his friend's warnings, eventually losing his entire pay. He wants to get his money back by going for broke, but he cheats. The foreigner, it seems, has noticed nothing, but the older colleague of the younger card player strongly rebukes him and refuses to play this way. In the last game, the gambler has a blackjack - an ace and a ten. The foreigner, however, has two aces. The younger man tries to delude the foreigner by telling him that in the Czech version of the game, his hand is better. At that moment, the stranger, speaking rather fluent Czech, protests against the gambler's lies and leaves the room with all of the young man's money and a remark that it's only a sport.

Cast

Petr Skarke

hráč karet

Marcel Dekanovský

hráč karet

Crew and creators

Screenplay

Karel Smyczek

Director of Photography

Antonín Kutík

Camera Operator

Dragan Ruljančić

Pedagogical management

Antonín Kachlík (režie), Václav Hanuš (kamera), Jan Chaloupek (střih)

Music

Music Composed by

archivní

Music Advisor

Ivo Bláha

Production info

Original Title

Sport?

Czech Title

Sport?

English Title

Sport?

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

7 min

Original length in metres

183 meters

Distribution carrier

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