The Crying Girl

Country

Czechoslovakia, Former Yugoslavia, 1945–1991

Copyright

1958

Production year

1958

Runtime

17 min

Director

Josef Kluge

Category

film

Genre

fairytale

Typology

animatedtheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Plakalka

Czech title

Plakalka

English title

The Crying Girl

Co-production title

Placljivica ubrecena princeza

Cast

Pero Kvrgić

Voice by Karel Höger
loutkář

Commentary

Crew and creators

Director

Josef Kluge

Assistant Director

Napoleon Verikios

Commentary by

Milan Pavlík

Director of Photography

Emanuel Franek

Camera Operator

Josip Akčić

Art Director

Kamilo Tompa

Costumes

Ljuba Penič, Milena Nováková, Stepán Penič

Film Editor

Joič Lidija, Marie Kopecká

Animation

Josef Kluge (vedení loutek)

Production Manager

Krešo Novák, Zdeněk Bumba

Artistic Collaboration

Alexandr Marx, Ferda Ladika (loutky), Vítězslav Šafránek (loutky), Emil Přeček (loutky)

Cooperation

M. Piškor, F. Crnkovič, J. Balfek, N. Horvát

Direction of Czech version

Vladimír Lehký

Music

Music Composed by

Dragutin Savin

Production info

Original Title

Plakalka

Czech Title

Plakalka

English Title

The Crying Girl

Co-production Title

Placljivica ubrecena princeza

Category

film

Typology

animatedtheatrical distribution

Genre

fairytale

Origin country

Czechoslovakia, Former Yugoslavia, 1945–1991

Copyright

1958

Production Year

1958

Production specifications

projection approval 10 December 1958

Premiere

premiere 1 January 1960 /suitable for youths/ (kino Čas /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 1 January 1960 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní /kina Čas/)

Distribution slogan

no caption

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Laboratories

Barrandov Praha

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

17 min

Original length in metres

484 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Animation technique

puppet, combined (technique), feature

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

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