Tribute to Jiří Brožek 2025 / Smrt krásných srnců / Czechoslovakia 1986
Four names determined the successful adaptation of Ota Pavel’s short stories – director Karel Kachyňa, cameraman Vladimír Smutný, editor Jiří Brožek and actor Karel Heřmánek. Kachyňa cemented his reputation as a masterful narrator when, aided by resourceful editing, he organically combined motifs from different stories to craft a composition in which the shimmering, joyful mood, enhanced by poetic lensing, starts to dissipate beneath increasingly dramatic tones. The idyllic 1930s have now been replaced by the German occupation, and Heřmánek’s enchanting Jewish Electrolux salesman finds himself an outcast, who resolves to do something extremely dangerous for the sake of his sons.
Zdena Škapová
91 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Karel Kachyňa
/ Screenplay Karel Kachyňa, Dušan Hamšík na motivy povídek / based on the short novels by Ota Pavel
/ Dir. of Photography Vladimír Smutný
/ Music Luboš Fišer
/ Sound Pavel Jelínek
/ Editor Jiří Brožek
/ Art Director Oldřich Mach
/ Cast Karel Heřmánek, Marta Vančurová, Rudolf Hrušínský
/ Sales Národní filmový archiv
Karel Kachyňa (1924–2004). Selected filmography: King of Šumava (1959), Long Live the Republic! (1965), Coach to Vienna (1966), The Nun’s Night (1967), Jumping Over Puddles (1969), The Ear (1970), The Little Mermaid (1976), Watch Out, the Doctor Is on His Round! (1981), Nurses (1983), The Death of the Beautiful Deer (1986), The Cow (1993).
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