The thirty-year old Tonička works in the mine at the tipping machine. She suffers from a complex because she was born with venual malformations, colloquially called a port-wine stain, on her chest and neck. She lives with her married sister and lovingly cares for her two children. At a party, the quite handsome but eternally drunk miner Franta Placák notices Tonička. They spend the night together. Tonička falls in love with him and begins to look him up. Franta sleeps with her, but he does not acknowledge her when sober; once, when drunk in his one-room flat, he even offers her to his companion Lojza. Tonička runs away and publicly slaps him across the face the next day. She finds herself pregnant and fears that the child might inherit her handicap. A doctor talks her out of her worries. Franta coarsely refuses to take care of the mother of his future offspring. Tonička finds care and a home with Miška Preslová who herself cannot have children. Placák, who begins to creep into her favour out of the blue, is refused although he promises to go for anti-alcoholic therapy. Tonička delivers a healthy boy after some time and leaves with him to the countryside to her brother's where she is promised a job in the local gardening centre after her maternity leave.
Tonička Eisenhamrová
Jiřina, Toniččina sestra
Toniččin bratr
Luděk, Toniččin švagr
Franta Placák
Miška Preslová
Lojza
štajgr Ondřej
Melichar, Toniččin kamarád
hlavní inženýr Tomanec
horník
horník
horník
horník
vazoun
starý štajgr
hostitelka
rozložitá dělnice
dělnice
dělnice
manžel s harmonikou
rentgenolog
instalatér
výrostek u hřiště
drobný manžel
lékař v laboratoři
starší lékař
kluk
maminka
mistr
starší fanoušek
vrátný v nemocnici
bezpečák
dubl za Miroslava Donutila
dubl za Miroslava Donutila
Robert Vacík, Pavel Dvorský
František Stavinoha (Figurky ze šmantů – kniha povídek)
Jiří Švejda, Josef Vaculík, Lída Hustolesová, Jaroslav Kopic
Jiří Forst, Milan Šilha
Ivan Helcl, Jana Koubová, Antonín Pražský
Luboš Čížek, Gabriela Kerekešová, František Vláčil ml.
František Bártík, Boris Purkyt
Antonín Kachlík (režijní supervize), Zuzana Čvančarová (klapka), Irena Strachová (klapka), Vladimír Souček (fotograf)
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)
Příběh ohnivé Toničky
Příběh ohnivé Toničky
Story about the Fiery Tonička
povídka
featuretheatrical distribution
short-story, psychological
Czechoslovakia
1987
1986
start of filming 6 February 1986
end of filming 20 March 1986
medium length film
31 min
868 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
