An Attempt at Joy

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1981

Production year

1981

Runtime

10 min

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshort

Original title

Pokus o radost

Czech title

Pokus o radost

English title

An Attempt at Joy

Synopsis

Some students are writing a test on the subject “Do I trust society?” It seems from the students’ reactions that they indeed do not seethe with trust towards the establishment. They gather on a field in front of some prefabricated houses and talk about the sense of doing anything. Then they paint colourful pictures in the grey, unfinished housing estate, including a picture of the sun. Early in the morning, they are sitting and smoking when they are spotted by a guard who starts pursuing them with his dog. They run away. The painted sun shines on one of the prefab houses. But one student says: “We should have painted the sun in a different colour.“

Cast

Zuzana Sadílková

studentka

Gustav Skála

student zvaný Žabák

Jan Bartoš

otec studentky

Karel Hábl

profesor

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Miroslav Balajka

Director of Photography

Roman Pavlíček

Second Unit Photography

Vladimír Holomek

Art Director

Dana Hávová

Film Editor

Jan Svoboda

Production Manager

Jana Svobodová

Pedagogical management

Václav Vorlíček (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Viola Zelenková (produkce)

Music

Music Composed by

Petr Třebický

Production info

Original Title

Pokus o radost

Czech Title

Pokus o radost

English Title

An Attempt at Joy

Category

film

Typology

featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film

Genre

étude

Student film

3. ročník

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1981

Production Year

1981

Production

Studio FAMU

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

10 min

Original length in metres

300 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech