Afflicted

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1974

Production year

1974

Runtime

15 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Postižení

Czech title

Postižení

English title

Afflicted

Synopsis

An elderly barber is cutting the hair of a bearded man. A boy runs into his shop and shouts that war has broken out. The customer thinks he is a clever lad, and asks him his name and age. The barber is extremely disgruntled. He claims that the boy is obviously lying, cheeky, and that since the customer has no call to be chatting with him, he won't finish the haircut. The customer introduces himself as the writer Frank and asks the barber to finish his work or at least to let him pay for what has been done already. Although the roar of aircraft is to be heard outside, the barber refuses to believe that it can be war. A young girl comes down into the room from upstairs. She is the barber's nice, but is not allowed to make any comment on the situation. Finally, the nervous barber throws the customer out. Frank decides to find another barber's shop where he will get served, but immediately bombardment starts, and he goes back into a room now full of broken glass from the window. The barber is sweeping up the pieces, but after a moment collapses and dies. The terrified girl takes refuge in the writer's arms.

Cast

Miroslav Macháček

spisovatel Karel Frank, zákazník u holiče

Miroslav Homola

holič Jaroslav Falta

Gustav Bubník

Mirek, jedenáctiletý chlapec

Soňa Dvořáková

Faltova neteř

Crew and creators

Based on

William Styron (Když vypukla válka – povídka)

Screenplay

Ľuba Velecká

Director of Photography

Petr Čepický

Production Designer

Aleš Voleman

Production Manager

Ladislav Herz, Karel Fiala

Pedagogical management

Antonín Kachlík (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih), Vladimír Volf (produkce)

Music

Music Composed by

archivní

Music Advisor

Josef Ceremuga

Production info

Original Title

Postižení

Czech Title

Postižení

English Title

Afflicted

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1974

Production Year

1974

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

15 min

Original length in metres

413 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