Town Unaware
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1975Production year
1975Premiere
2 April 1976Runtime
87 minDirector
Dušan KleinCategory
filmGenre
crimeTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Město nic nevíCzech title
Město nic nevíEnglish title
Town UnawareSummary
A film depicting a day in the life of criminal investigators in the Ostrava police department was one result of director Dušan Klein’s specialisation in crime and detective stories throughout the 1970s. Under the dramaturgic oversight of Oldřich Železný, screenwriters Karel Cop and Karel Štorkán created a trio of different and unrelated cases. Police search in vain for a missing 16-year old girl; succeed in arresting a mentally disturbed kidnapper of infants; and in a robbery case manage to arrest a pair of lovers about to cross the border into Poland, complete with their loot, albeit at the expense of an injury to one of the investigators… In his search for authenticity, Klein cast some lesser known actors in this film, which also benefited from realistic depictions of industrial Ostrava.
Synopsis
A summer’s day. Sixteen-year-old Hedvika arrives in Ostrava. At the same time Libuše Zahradníková is conspiring with her lover Emil Kučera at a bistro, secretly observed by the crime investigator Bauch. A baby kidnapped a week before in front of a shop is found dead in the deserted waiting room at the health centre. The three events become the focus of attention of the Ostrava police crime squad. Hedvika's flight from home is reported by her parents. Bauch follows the two conspirators all the way out of town to a neighbourhood of weekend cabins where Kučera attacks him with a knife. The badly wounded policeman luckily reaches hospital in time and his written notes put his colleague on the right trail. Věra Hánová is telling a lawyer that he must compel her former friend engineer Kalvínský to visit their daughter. After leaving the lawyer, she gives money to a little girl looking after her baby brother's pram, telling her she can go and buy a bear in the toyshop . Then she takes the opportunity to steal the pram with the baby. The police are investigating all three cases. Zahradníková has a hundred and twenty thousand crowns from the robbery for which her husband has been jailed, and Kučera has stolen Bauch's pistol. The lawyer leads the police to the mentally disturbed kidnapper Hánová, who had earlier miscarried her longed-for child. The first child kidnapped by her was ill and died on the way to the health centre but fortunately, the second one has been saved. The lovers are arrested before they manage to escape to Poland. Hedvika will also be found soon. A new day begins and the town is unaware of all this...
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Cast
František Řehák
major VB Kilián
Rudolf Jelínek
nadporučík VB Pěnkava
Vlastimil Hašek
nadporučík VB Falta
Jan Kanyza
poručík VB Adámek
Jaromír Spal
kapitán VB Touš
Jiří Zahajský
poručík VB Lukeš
Bohumil Šmída
nadporučík VB Bažant zvaný Fotr
Evelyna Steimarová
Libuše Zahradníková
René Přibil
Emil Kučera, milenec Zahradníkové
Helena Malehová
Věra Hánová
Milada Janderová
Hedvika Miloňová
Josef Šebek
nadporučík Stanislav Bauch
Drahomíra Hofmanová
Jana, Bauchova žena
Karel Vochoč
lázeňský
Jiří Kodet
Ing. Jiří Kalvínský, bývalý přítel
Milan Riehs
informátor Ervín
Jana Vaňková
Petrmichlová, matka uneseného dítěte
Oldřich Vlček
podporučík VB Havránek
Jan Pohan
kriminalista
Lenka Termerová
kantýnská Ciprová
Jiřina Steimarová
matka inženýra Kalvínského
Karel Hábl
provozní Maxmilián Hubert
Jiří Hálek
advokát
Alois Švehlík
poručík VB Tonda
Vladimír Krška
soused s chlebem
Josef Haukvic
vrátný zdravotního střediska Nekuda
Dagmar Patrasová
zdravotní sestra
Marie Viková
prodavačka
Václav Antoš
Petrmichl
Jiřina Bílá
nájemnice
Marie Černá (2)
Eva Vajsová, kamarádka Hedviky
Alexandra Gasnárková
vedoucí prodejny
Jaroslav Wagner
MUDr. Klem
Adolf Kohuth
člen hlídky
Alexandr Postler
člen hlídky
Jan Odl
mladík
Milan Klacek
příslušník VB
Bohuslav Ličman
technik VB
Bořík Procházka
mladý lékař
A. Kubíčková
Miloňová
Miloš Zavřel
řidič Volhy
Miloslav Svoboda
domácí u Hánové
Lucie Žulová
slečna
Commentary
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Jiří Prokeš
Continuity
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Jan Hanzl
Production Designer
Assistent Production Designer
Set Designer
Miloš Osvald, Jiří Rulík
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Ladislav Beneš, Jana Koubová
Unit Production Manager
Lev Veltrubský
Consultant
pplk. Miroslav Hýbl
Cooperation
Blažena Zajícová (klapka), Ivan Minář (fotograf), Krájská správa VB v Ostravě
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Songs
Mávám růží
Song Composer Lester LeeZeke Manners
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Grossmann
Singer Naďa Urbánková
Ptačí hnízda
Song Composer Zdeněk Marat
Writer of Lyrics Vladimír Poštulka
Singer Helena Vondráčková
Tak si běž
Song Composer Zdeněk Marat
Writer of Lyrics Zdeněk Borovec
Singer Hana Zagorová
Šer-chán
Song Composer Zdeněk Marat
Writer of Lyrics Zdeněk Borovec
Singer Valerie Čižmárová
Production info
Original Title
Město nic neví
Czech Title
Město nic neví
English Title
Town Unaware
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
crime
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1975
Production Year
1975
Production specifications
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1986
Premiere
premiere 1 April 1976 /suitable for youths/ (kino Jalta, Praha)
premiere 2 April 1976 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Dramaturgická skupina Vladimíra Kaliny, Vladimír Kalina (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
87 min
Original length in metres
2 450 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,66
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
