Sketchbook Etudes
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Etudy do skicákuCzech title
Etudy do skicákuEnglish title
Sketchbook EtudesSynopsis
Majka didn't make it to fine art school and is for the moment selling hot dogs at the fast-food bar. She is staying with her married sister Jana and is a little in the way there. One of her customers, a nice doctor called Volráb, is courting Majka and invites her over to his place. He lives in a luxurious flat but the paintings on the walls, some of them gifts from patients who are artists, have been chosen according to their price rather than quality. Majka falls in love with Volráb and decides that her future lies with him, but he has concealed from her the existence of his wife Helena, who refuses to divorce him and even plans to join him on his journey to Greece, where the doctor intends to go to and work for three years. Majka meets Tomáš a film directoring student and lets him stay over in her room after a drinking party. The young man starts to grow fond of her but Jana warns him that Majka is going to marry a doctor and is intending to go abroad with him. Majka, however, is soon to be deeply disappointed. Helena's threats and emotional blackmail have managed to sway her husband. And with his planned journey likely to bring him considerable material gain, he drily dumps Majka. A sculptor, Majka's friend, is mixing plaster in his studio. His wife is hanging out the nappies. Majka observes them through a keyhole with a smile.
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Cast
Lenka Termerová
Majka
Alois Švehlík
MUDr. Volráb
Ivan Pokorný
student režie Tomáš
Alena Procházková
Jana, Majčina sestra
Oldřich Vlach
Míra, Janin muž
Stanislava Bartošová
Helena, Volrábova žena
Jiří Havel
sochař
Eva Trunečková
sochařova žena
Mirko Musil
zákazník Musil
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Jana Knitlová (povídka)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Ludvík Ráža (režie), Viola Zelenková (produkce), Alois Fišárek (střih), Jiří Macháně (kamera)
Cooperation
Jiří Pech (vrchní osvětlovač), Vladimír Blažek, Martina Krýslová, Ján Stejskal, Anna Svobodová, Jan Vyčítal
Music
Music Composed by
archivní
Music Advisor
Songs
Honey, Honey
Song Composer Benny AnderssonBjörn UlvaeusStig Anderson
Writer of Lyrics Benny AnderssonBjörn UlvaeusStig Anderson
Singer Anni-Frid LyngstadAgnetha Fältskogskupina ABBA
Production info
Original Title
Etudy do skicáku
Czech Title
Etudy do skicáku
English Title
Sketchbook Etudes
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1978
Production Year
1978
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
20 min
Original length in metres
550 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
