The Best Day for the Banana Fish
Category
filmGenre
drama, psychologicalTypology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent filmshortOriginal title
Den jako stvořený pro banánové rybičkyCzech title
Den jako stvořený pro banánové rybičkyEnglish title
The Best Day for the Banana FishSynopsis
The young woman Kristína does her manicure in a hotel room and puts on a face mask. She receives a phone call from her slightly hysterical mother who warns her about the unpredictible behaviour of her honeymooner, telling her that the young man is nice but suffers from a psychical handicap from the war and no one knows what may happen. The man meanwhile talks to the little Renatka on the deserted sandy beach. They float together on mattresses on the water and the man tells the girl a story about fish that swim into a hole full of bananas, eat them all, turn fat and cannot get back through the hole. Snatches of the shocking war experiences keep returning to the man’s mind. He has a swim with the little girl and then parts from her. The kid is alone and the man returns to the hotel. While Kristina is asleep, the man takes a gun from his suitcase and commits suicide.
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Cast
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
J. D. Salinger (Den jako stvořený pro banánové rybičky /A Perfect Day for Bananafish/ – povídka)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Martin Čech, Pavel Prokop
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Pedagogical management
Jan Kališ (kamera), Václav Vorlíček (režie), Jiří Sequens
Cooperation
Jerzy Bojanowski, Saša Gedeon, Václav Kunc, Jana Mašíková, Vasilis Skalenakis
Music
Music Composed by
Production info
Original Title
Den jako stvořený pro banánové rybičky
Czech Title
Den jako stvořený pro banánové rybičky
English Title
The Best Day for the Banana Fish
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distributionstudent film
Genre
drama, psychological
Student film
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1991
Production Year
1991
Production
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
17 min
Original length in metres
473 meters
Distribution carrier
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
