A Taxi, Please...

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1960

Production year

1960

Runtime

26 min

Category

povídka

Genre

short-story, feuilleton

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Taxi, prosím...

Czech title

Taxi, prosím...

English title

A Taxi, Please...

Synopsis

The taxi driver hasn't even time to finish his coffee in the snack-bar when a young woman comes up with a request. She wants to impress her sweetheart, who has just bought a new car. On her request, the taxi driver parks his beautiful new Tatra 603 where her boyfriend can see it, and then opens the door for the girl and kisses her hand. The girl stares wide-eyed at the motor tricycle, the so-called tattercraft, and her sweetheart waiting by it. The couple of lovers who are the taxi-driver's next customers end up quarrelling. He intervenes and helps them make up. Then he advises his next client, the tired constructor of an electronic processor who has spent a couple of days desperately trying to find what is wrong with his machine, to focus on the details, the interface and the like. The scientist falls asleep and dreams of the taxi driver entering his laboratory in a white coat and putting his processor with a single gesture of his hand into operation. The last client is Mr Kalina, a man dressed up as Santa Claus who is taking presents to his little daughter. His beloved Hanička lives with her mother, his ex-wife. He never meets her in the end because her mother has moved out together with the girl.

Production info

Original Title

Taxi, prosím...

Czech Title

Taxi, prosím...

English Title

A Taxi, Please...

Category

povídka

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

short-story, feuilleton

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1960

Production Year

1960

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 15 October 1960
start of filming 25 October 1960
end of filming 9 December 1960

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

26 min

Original length in metres

729 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech