Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex But Are Afraid to Experience
Category
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít:Czech title
Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít:English title
Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex But Are Afraid to ExperienceSynopsis
Jiří Kačer finished the simultaneous interpreting of Woody Allen’s film Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). The director pays him his royalty and offers him to work on one more tape. It should be a travelogue but the picture on the cover betrays a porn movie. The translator resolutely refuses but then is captivated by what the director shows him from the videoplayer. Kačer eventually translates the movie and then many others in the following days. The brief sentences and sighs can easily be translated into Czech, but the translator’s private life begins to jar. His wife vainly waits for sex many evenings and the man does not understand his unexpected indisposition. Only a consultation with a sex therapist brings an explanation: the translator lacks sentences and instructions in foreign language. The doctor is ready to carry out the treatment directly in the patient’s flat. Discretely hidden behind the bedroom door, he simultaneously interprets Kačer’s love words, sighs and sentences to German. The treatment is indeed successful and the wife is satisfied. The patient pays the doctor his royalty and asks him to repeat the venture once more.
Note
The closing titles mistakenly read that the author of the leading song is Mundell Lowe. Although Lowe composed the original music to Woody Allen´s film Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, the opening titles of the Czech film are accompanied by a song by Cole Porter. The subhead towards the end of the movie read: "The three corrupt intellectuals from our film were later unconditionally sentenced for endangering the education of the middle-age generation to three years in prison which stripped them of their anyway shady freedom. The deliquents in question were thus also deprived of their right to be elected to any representative body and of the right of assembly a free speech."
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Cast
Jiří Ornest
překladatel Jiří Kačer
Marie Durnová
manželka
Jan Vodňanský
sexuolog
Bořivoj Navrátil
režisér
Štěpánka Wlodarczyková
kamarádka
Jan Hřebejk
kamarád
Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Cooperation
Aleš Březina, Pavel Dobrovský, Martin Froyda, Igor Chaun, Jakub Mejdřický, Petr Skoumal, Michaela Šebestíková, Dan Wlodarczyk
Songs
Let's Misbehave
Song Composer Cole Porter
Writer of Lyrics Jan Vodňanský
Singer Badot kvartet
Production info
Original Title
Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít:
Czech Title
Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít:
English Title
Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex But Are Afraid to Experience
Category
film
Typology
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
comedy
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1988
Production Year
1988
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
15 min
Original length in metres
173 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm
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
Awards
Vítěz
Exhibition: 7. přehlídka filmařského mládí v rámci soutěže Studentské a umělecké a odborné činnosti Praha
1989
Praha / Czechoslovakia
