Holy Words

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1980

Production year

1980

Runtime

7 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Svatá slova

Czech title

Svatá slova

English title

Holy Words

Synopsis

A young man spent his first night with a woman. In the morning, before leaving for work, he enthusiastically tells her about how long he had dreamed of her. With a kiss on the cheek, the young woman Markéta convinces him that she is indeed real. In the factory changing room, the young man meets a colleague who realizes that he has fallen in love. He tells him about what Markéta was saying to him in bed when they were having an intimate moment. Then he warns him – the young woman is a liar with whom almost everyone has slept. The young man does not believe it, but other colleagues confirm it: a worker known as Fanfán and an older worker. The older worker remembers how when he was younger, every girl would claim her lover to be her second. They would also claim that her first one was a partisan who died during the war. The unfortunate man stands stiffly in the dressing room and hears the older worker telling the others that it would be best for him to find a truly decent girl who would tell him the right – sacred – words.

Cast

Antonín Kaška

mladý dělník

Josef Somr

starší dělník

Jan Vávra

dělník zvaný Fanfán

Crew and creators

Based on

Marek Hłasko (Svatá slova /Najświętsze słowa naszego życia/ – povídka)

Screenplay

Paweł Trzaska

Director of Photography

Michal Hájek

Production Manager

Jana Prokopcová

Pedagogical management

Jaroslav Balík (režie), Karel Kovář, Jiří Macháně (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih)

Production info

Original Title

Svatá slova

Czech Title

Svatá slova

English Title

Holy Words

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1980

Production Year

1980

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

7 min

Original length in metres

196 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