The Scream (1964)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Scream |
| Original title | Křik |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jaromil Jireš |
| script | Jaromil Jireš, Ludvík Aškenazy |
| production |
Jan Procházka , Erich Svabík |
| music | Jan Klusák |
| camera | Jaroslav Kučera |
| cut | Jiřina Lukešová |
| occupation | |
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The Scream (original title: Křik ) is a Czechoslovakian film by the director Jaromil Jireš from 1964 in black and white. He had also written the script together with Ludvík Aškenazy . The two main roles are occupied by Eva Límanová and Josef Abrhám . The film first hit cinemas in his home country on February 14, 1964. It had its cinema premiere in the GDR on May 15, 1964; in the Federal Republic of Germany you could see him for the first time on October 29, 1966 in the third program of the North German Radio. Then it had the title The First Cry .
action
A somewhat messy one-room apartment in the attic . The morning has dawned. A young couple lies in a kind of improvised double bed. Then the woman feels her first contractions . She is expecting a child. Before that happens, however, almost a whole day will pass when Ivana is anxious about her difficult hour and Slávek goes about his work as a television mechanic. Ivana experiences the hospital, the nurses, the other expectant mothers in her room until the birth is not exactly easy - and one has the impression of the very human, personal, intimate. Slávek appears on his repairs with customers in a school class where he sees different types of children, visits a cynical critic who is finishing the review of an Antonioni film, and meets another intellectual who tries to make it clear to him that offspring are just a burden portray, receives a cot from a friend, is forced in an almost grotesque way by a loving lady to a shepherd's hour - and you are in the milieu of Prague, you get to know the people and their habits, their views, their social and political points of view.
Are between Chopped reminiscences from the past, but also thoughts associations and visual expression of feelings. At the end there is the first cry of the new citizen.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film came to the following conclusion: “A 28-year-old Czech director portrays a young married couple in Prague on the day they are expecting their first child, with a sincere and sensitive approach. The poetic-critical reflection on the present is set in parallel to common earlier experiences of a personal and social nature. A psychologically and sociologically informative film. "
The Protestant film observer was also full of praise: “An astonishingly modern debut from Czechoslovakia about a young couple and their experiences on the day they had their first child. This song of love, the conjugal community and the affirmation of the child, almost without ideology, is also highly recommended in the (censored?) DEFA version (from 18). "
Web links
- The cry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 27/1966, pp. 57–58.
- ↑ The Scream. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2016 .