The Last Binge
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1982Production year
1982Premiere
1 January 1984Runtime
70 minDirector
Miloš ZábranskýCategory
filmGenre
psychologicalTypology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent filmlongOriginal title
Poslední mejdanCzech title
Poslední mejdanEnglish title
The Last BingeWorking title
Staccato v dechu [literární scénář]Summary
Around 1989, writer-director Miloš Zábranský presented himself as maker of “spiritual” films containing a social-critical subtext (Dům pro dva [House for Two, 1987], Masseba, 1989, Stavení [Home, 1990]). But his debut film is not a parable, it is rather a morality play. Poslední mejdan (The Last Binge, 1984) tells the story of two female nursing school students, each with very different personalities and moral standards. Kristýna is sensitive and conscientious; Alena is a superficial manipulator. While sharing a room at a hall of residence, Kristýna gradually detects worrying shortcomings among her suitors, and increasingly fancies the good-hearted Pepík. Alena, meanwhile, gets herself pregnant with Yugoslavian man Bora, and tries to get him to march down the aisle... Tereza Pokorná (Kristýna) and Světlana Nálepková (Alena) take the lead roles in this sensitive story of mid-1980s female adolescence.
Synopsis
Kristýna and Alena, students at a medical secondary school, are friends and roommates in the nurses' home. They also go disco dancing together. One time at a disco, the tantalizing Alena, who in no way suffers from a lack of admirers, meets a Yugoslav student called Bora. The sensitive and somewhat shy Kristýna has a few wooers around, too: the self-confident Richard, and Pepík who did not get into university and works in the purchase of returnable bottles. Also, her former schoolmate Milan from a small town where the girl frequently goes to visit her parents considers her to be his girlfriend. Kristýna tries to honestly fulfill all her duties ensuing from her hospital training. She nevertheless often runs into conflicts, mainly with doctor Hartl. Alena gets pregnant by Bora and prepares for a wedding, even though the young man does not want to marry her. Alena threatens him with a scandal at his embassy. Kristýna increasingly prefers Pepík. She was initially impressed by Richard but she saw him deftly robbing a wallet packed with foreign exchange from a tourist. She later finds out that Robert is an underhand moneychanger dealing in Tuzex vouchers [Tuzex = sales system and shops that used convertible-currency vouchers in Communist Czechoslovakia]. As far as Milan is concerned, Kristýna is repelled by his vulgar gang of friends. In the hospital, Kristýna has problems with the old Koudelka, who has twice disconnected himself from his drip. In the first case, Kristýna was unjustly blamed for it, and in the second case it happened when she let herself be convinced to drop in for a celebration of the hospital nurses for a while. At a public meeting, she is labeled the "black sheep" of the school. But Kristýna resolutely objects and also talks about various deficiencies in the hospital. She realizes that she loves Pepík and is happy for some time. Pepík, however, soon leaves for his military service.
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Cast
Tereza Pokorná
studentka Kristýna Hanzalová
Světlana Nálepková
studentka Alena
Michal Nesvadba
Voice by Antonín Navrátil
Pepík Dvořák
Roman Skamene
Richard
Zdeněk Podhůrský
jugoslávský student Boro
Jan Vlasák
Voice by Petr Oliva
profesor Vondráček
Jiří Opřátko
Voice by Jiří Zahajský
MUDr. Hartl
Jiří Kopta
Milan, Kristýnin bývalý spolužák
Václav Luks
děda Koudelka
Ladislav Šimek
otec Kristýny
Jiřina Chlumská
matka Kristýny
Jarmila Melichová
vrchní sestra Brúžková
Leoš Suchařípa
Voice by Karel Vochoč
primář
Milan Livora
taxikář
Jana Gýrová
zdravotní sestra
Vladimír Pancl
Pintr
Jan Čenský
násilník Jarda
Dana Bartůňková
dívka z party
Eva Hlavatá
dívka z party
Jana Kulendová
dívka z party
Věra Pereirová
dívka z party
Jana Ursinyová
dívka z party
Miroslav Babuský
kluk z party
Antonín Kaška
kluk z party
Martin Platzer
kluk z party
Daniel Rous
kluk z party
Jaro Svitok
kluk z party
Ljiljana Milojković
Angličanka
Zuzana Bydžovská
studentka zdravotní školy
Barbora Štěpánová
dívka na internátě
Olga Želenská
dívka
Jan Teplý
Pepíkův otec
Jiří Máša
mladík
Petr Růžička
mladík
Dubbing
Blanka Bohdanová
hlas vychovatelky
Jiří Němeček
hlas pacienta se slavíkem
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Continuity
Screenstory
Screenplay
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Miroslav Šnábl, Richard Špůr, Igor Demčák, Vladimír Kýbl
Set Designer
Martin Svoboda
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
Assistant Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Jaroslav Procházka (výroba)
Unit Production Manager
Eva Kulhánková, Jiří Pavlásek
Pedagogical management
Václav Vorlíček (režie)
Cooperation
Dolores Šrůtková (klapka), Otto Kamenský (fotograf)
Songs
Démon
Song Composer Petr a Pavel Orm
Writer of Lyrics Petr a Pavel Orm
Singer Kamélie
Okno mé lásky
Song Composer Petr Janda
Writer of Lyrics Zdeněk Rytíř
Singer Petr Janda
V rytmu galaxie
Song Composer Petr a Pavel Orm
Writer of Lyrics Petr a Pavel Orm
Singer Kamélie
Mário
Song Composer Vítězslav Hádl
Writer of Lyrics Michael Prostějovský
Singer Eva Hurychová-Mošnerová
Jsem
Song Composer Jan Neckář
Writer of Lyrics Michael Prostějovský
Singer Václav Neckář
Production info
Original Title
Poslední mejdan
Czech Title
Poslední mejdan
English Title
The Last Binge
Working Title
Staccato v dechu [literární scénář]
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
psychological
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1982
Production Year
1982
Production specifications
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1989
Premiere
premiere 1 January 1984 /unsuitable for youths/
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
70 min
Original length in metres
1 988 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 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
