With the film They Wait Every Sunday, Václav Táborský followed up on his film Two Tables Between Us, and its theme of a breakdown of marriage. In this case, however, he does not continue with his method of a recorded documentary. Instead he shows a fragment from lives of real pre-school children from broken families who found themselves in institutional care. Sundays at the Stránov Castle, where a children's home for 65 inmates was established after the nationalisation in 1950, are characterised by waiting for sporadic visits from biological or foster parents.
From the Stránov viaduct you can see the tower of the neo-Renaissance Stránov Castle. Its courtyard reveals that it serves as a children's home. Lots of children's clothes are hanging out to dry. Inside the castle, the children spend their usual Sunday afternoons with the nannies, playing. Some of the children are answering questions asked by a voice behind the camera. Only a few children have visits on Sundays from their real or future adoptive parents.
M. Rosová
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Klavírní koncert Es dur /druhá věta/)
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They Wait Every Sunday
film
documentarytheatrical distribution
social, sociological
Czechoslovakia
1962
1962
projection approval 19 April 1962
premiere 1962 /suitable for youths/
no caption
short film
10 min
271 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, commentary
without subtitles
Czech
Exhibition: 4. dny krátkého filmu Karlovy Vary
1963
Karlovy Vary / Czechoslovakia
Václav Táborský