Karel Smyczek launched his highly successful directing career with Housata (Goslings), a feature film made according to Irena Charvátová's screenplay. The main protagonists of the tragicomic narrative in this 1979 release are girls resident in a boarding house attached to a college for textiles apprentices. Similarly to Forman’s Lásky jedné plavovlásky (Loves of a Blonde, 1965), the female leads in Goslings – sensitive Marie, self-confident Monika and diffident Šárka – also struggle with issues surrounding their first romantic relationships. Marie falls in love with private Oto, to whom she has been writing letters on behalf of stylistically inept Monika. When it comes to light, Marie is shunned by everybody… This is a distinctive film that references the poetic character of 1960s Czechoslovak cinema, with its credible situations and dialogues, as well as its captivating cast. The casting in fact provided opportunities for numerous young performers (Yvetta Kornová, Veronika Gajerová, Jaromíra Mílová and Jaromír Dulava).
Marie, Monika, Šárka, Blanka, Renata, these are just few names of the girls who stay at a boarding-house of the textile vocational school. Each of the girls is different, each has her own fate. The serious and sensitive Marie shares a room with Šárka, a girl from a childern's home and superficial Monika, who is confident due to her provocative beauty and a rich family background. Monika in comparison to other girls has always a boy-friend and still she keeps some in reserve. One of them is lance-corporal Ota from an ad. But Monika cannot write interesting letters, Marie is writing them instead of her. Ota and Marie get to understand each other in the letters and the girl falls in love with the private on a distance. But during the first Ota's visit Monika likes the soldier and so she strives to cover successfully that the nice letters were written by somebody else. Marie is sad and decides to write Ota the truth. The impulsive Šárka, who is personally happy because she is usually invited for weekends in the family of the instructor Marková, reveals Marie's action unintetionally. The conceited Monika breaks the agreed date of Ota and Marie and she wins the shy and indecisive boy again for herself. On top of that she tells all to the other girls who turn away from Marie. Šárka tries to help her in vain. The unhappy Marie stays alone and she has to get over it alone as well.
učnice Marie Zahrádková
učnice Šárka
učnice Monika Havlíková
učnice Blanka
učnice Dana
vychovatelka Bobina
vedoucí vychovatelka Slávka
učnice zvaná Křivačka
učnice Klárka
učnice Marcela, členka školní rady
učnice Renata
Voice by Jan Hartl
svobodník Ota
instruktorka Marková
Voice by Pavel Zedníček
Luděk, Blančin přítel
gynekolog
opilý Jarouš
Voice by Bronislav Poloczek
Václav, Danin milenec
Václavova žena
hlučná žena v čekárně
Terka, dcera Markové
Janík, syn Markové
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Ivo Formánek, Emil Hrazdira, Jiří Matějka, Josef Šťovíček
Jiří Moudrý, Jitka Zvirocká (zvukové efekty)
Dušan Schaffer, Jindřich Ujčík
Jiří Zemanec
Dagmar Ondrová (klapka), Otto Kamenský (fotograf), Josef Záleský, Karnola n. p. Krnov, Domov mládeže Střední pedagogické školy v Krnově
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Singer ženský sbor
Song Composer Jiří Suchý
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Suchý
Singer Jaromíra Mílová
Song Composer Ivan Mládek
Writer of Lyrics Ivan Mládek
Singer Ivan Mládek
Song Composer František Kmoch
Writer of Lyrics František Kudrna
Singer dívčí hlas
Song Composer Josef Kolín
Writer of Lyrics Vladimír Čort
Singer Jiří Korn
Song Composer Zdeněk John
Writer of Lyrics Michael Prostějovský
Singer ženský hlas
Song Composer Zdeněk John
Writer of Lyrics Michael Prostějovský
Singer dívčí hlas
Song Composer Zdeněk John
Writer of Lyrics Michael Prostějovský
Singer mužský hlas
Song Composer Pavel Dydovič
Writer of Lyrics František Řebíček
Singer ženský hlas
Song Composer Ivan Mládek
Writer of Lyrics Ivan Mládek
Singer Eva Janoušková (2)sbor
Housata
Housata
Goslings
film
featuretheatrical distribution
psychological
Czechoslovakia
1979
1979
withdrawal from distribution 31 May 1993
premiere 18 January 1980 /suitable for youths/
feature film
73 min
2 087 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: 17. filmový festival mladých Trutnov
2015
Trutnov / Czechoslovakia
Karel Smyczek
Festival: 3. mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež Tomar
1982
Tomar / Portugal
Festival: 31. filmový festival pracujících – léto ´80
1980
63 měst / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 2. festival československé filmové veselohry Nové Město nad Metují
1980
Nové Město nad Metují / Czechoslovakia
Yvetta Kornová
Festival: 2. [též uváděný jako 16.] mezinárodní festival mladého filmu Hyères
1980
Hyères / France
Festival: 18. festival českých a slovenských filmů Košice
1980
Košice / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 2. festival československé filmové veselohry Nové Město nad Metují
1980
Nové Město nad Metují / Czechoslovakia
Veronika Gajerová
Festival: 2. festival československé filmové veselohry Nové Město nad Metují
1980
Nové Město nad Metují / Czechoslovakia
Jaromíra Mílová
Festival: 30. filmový festival pracujících – léto ´79
1979
62 měst / Czechoslovakia