A Day for a Front-Runner
Category
filmGenre
étudeTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Favoritův denCzech title
Favoritův denEnglish title
A Day for a Front-RunnerSynopsis
A beautiful bay horse wins the race but is nevertheless sent for tests to a research institute for it should be subsequently used for breeding. Common sense would command that such a front-runner should keep on racing. But a bribed high official wants to remove the successful competitor from the races. The young scientist Grachov accompanies the animal on the way to the laboratory. The truck is driven by the chronic alcoholic and churl Lecha who has the no scruples regarding the horse. He is in a hurry and does not even let throw a blanket on the sweating animal or litter it with straw in an empty truck body. Grachov apprehensively watches Lecha’s drinking and reckless driving. The driver even manages to make an illicit move on the way, transporting planks for somebody. Grachov meanwhile tends to the horse and takes it to water. The young man finally decides it would be better to recall the tests and makes Lecha drive back. The motor, however, begins to belch smoke. The driver stops on a slight slope and gets out of the truck. The truck starts moving autonomically and Grachov succeeds in jumping out of the cab at the last moment. The truck crashes and bursts into flames. The horse, with its legs broken, desperately whinnies in a ditch. The broken Grachov decides to put it out of its misery, killing it mercifully with a hammer.
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Cast
Karel Hlušička
řidič Lecha Šavrov
Jan Hartl
Grachov
Jan Teplý
nadřízený
Valerie Zawadská
Marie
Vladislav Čížek
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Ilja Kašafutdinov (Favoritův den /Vysokaja krov/ – novela)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Consultant
Josef Vodňanský
Pedagogical management
Ludvík Ráža (režie), Jan Kališ (kamera), Alois Fišárek (střih), Ivo Bláha, Hana Bezrouková
Cooperation
Martin Kubala, Pavlína Moskalyková, Státní statek Šumava Vyšší Brod, P. Feldstein, R. Hojek, P. Potůček
Production info
Original Title
Favoritův den
Czech Title
Favoritův den
English Title
A Day for a Front-Runner
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
étude
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1982
Production Year
1982
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
19 min
Original length in metres
519 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:2,35
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
