Raven in a Tenement

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production year

1983

Premiere

1 June 1986

Runtime

13 min

Director

Milan Peer

Category

film

Genre

étude

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Havran v panelovém domě

Czech title

Havran v panelovém domě

English title

Raven in a Tenement

Working title

Havran v paneláku

Synopsis

In the middle of night a man is reading the poem, The Raven, from Poe's book of poems. His wife is sleeping next to him, even snoring a bit. While reciting the entire poem about a lover who recalls his dead love, Lenora, the man experiences a strange confrontation with a raven which flew into his room. The man leaves the room. In their picture album, he finds a picture of his wife as a girl. Behind his back, his daughter is walking quietly to drink some water. When the man looks through the eyelet to the corridor, it appears to him that a raven is walking there. But when he opens the door though, he sees just scattered shoes. The man pours a glass of rum, then drinks the entire bottle. His sleepy wife finds him lying in front of the television where the programme has long finished. She sends him to bed. The man, called Pepa, leaves for the sleeping room. In the morning the family parts in front of the house and Pepa, surprisingly, picks up a black bird feather. Through his mind flashes an image of him pushing his wife' s head under water, but in the end he does not let her drown. While playing a children's game, together with his wife and children, they are all holding hands in a circle and jumping in the water.

Note

The film was released in cinemas as a preview of the French comedy March in the Shadow.

Commentary

Crew and creators

Director

Milan Peer

Screenstory

Milan Peer

Based on

Edgar Allan Poe (Havran /The Raven/ – báseň), Vítězslav Nezval (Havran /The Raven/ – překlad básně)

Screenplay

Milan Peer

Director of Photography

Petr Pešek

Art Director

Jan Souček

Sound Designer

Jan Štorek

Production Manager

Tomáš Formáček

Music

Music Composed by

Martin Kratochvíl

Production info

Original Title

Havran v panelovém domě

Czech Title

Havran v panelovém domě

English Title

Raven in a Tenement

Working Title

Havran v paneláku

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

étude

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production Year

1983

Premiere

premiere 1 June 1986 /unsuitable for youths/

Distribution slogan

no caption

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

13 min

Original length in metres

365 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