Good Luck!

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1976

Production year

1976

Runtime

37 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmmedium

Original title

Hodně štěstí!

Czech title

Hodně štěstí!

English title

Good Luck!

Synopsis

Among dozing passengers in the train going from Slovakia to Prague there is a slim future music student Zuzana. The conductor makes a fuss in the car when accusing a young Roma man of a purse theft. The young man is evidently not the offender. At the end station he helps Zuzana to bring her luggage to the baggage room willingly. The girl walks then through the town and asks how to get to the Hradební Street where she shall stay at a student hostel. She meets various people among them also a cheeky young man, who hopes that the momentary meeting will lead to an affair. When Zuzana wants to make her mood better by ice-cream she misses her purse. An older man in the queue for ice-cream offers her help. Zuzana rejects first, but then they have lunch together. An older woman, perhaps the wife of the host sees the couple through the window of the cafe and makes a jealous scene. The man wants perhaps due to his unsatisfied family life to leave Prague. In the course of the dialogue the girl is homesick and she goes to the toilet to cry. The man looks in the meantime at her flute which she carries in a case. Before the student hostel where he helped her as a gentleman with her luggage they part. In the room which will be her home she finds banknotes in the flute which her unknown friend left there...

Cast

Agnes Czaková

studentka Zuzana Bieľková z Prievidze

Jaroslav Moučka

starší muž

Jaroslav Cmíral

průvodčí ve vlaku

Vladimír Janura

Voice by Karel Augusta
praporčík VB

Vítězslav Jandák

strážmistr VB Tonda

Eva Svobodová

stará žena na Klárově

Jaroslava Tichá

manželka staršího muže

Vlastimila Vlková

toaletářka

Jiří Vondráček

mladík ve fiatu

Š. Sivák

romský cestující

Věra Koktová

žena na záchodě

Josef Braun

cestující

Crew and creators

Director of Photography

Jozef Hardoš

Sound Designer

Josef Hubka

Production Manager

Karel Janda

Pedagogical management

Jan Kališ (kamera), Josef Valušiak (střih), Karel Kohout (střih), Antonín Kachlík (režie)

Music

Music Composed by

Jiří Stivín

Selected Music

Giacomo Puccini (Lazebník sevillský /Il barbiere di Siviglia/)

Songs

Škoda lásky

Song Composer Karel Vacek

Production info

Original Title

Hodně štěstí!

Czech Title

Hodně štěstí!

English Title

Good Luck!

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1976

Production Year

1976

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

37 min

Original length in metres

1 030 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,66

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech, Slovak

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech