If there weren't any musicians
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | If there weren't any musicians |
| Original title | Kdyby ty muziky nebyly |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 33 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Miloš Forman |
| script | Miloš Forman, Ivan Passer |
| camera | Miroslav Ondříček |
| cut | Miroslav Hájek |
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If there weren't any musicians ( Kdyby ty muziky nebyly ) is a short film made in 1963 by Miloš Forman . Two actors appear in it who appeared repeatedly in his later feature films, Jan Vostrčil and Vladimír Pucholt .
action
At the beginning some boys try to impress the girls with their motorbikes. You are racing off-road. Forman then alternately shows the rehearsals of two brass bands playing Czech folk music, each of which has one of the boys involved as a trumpeter.
When both bands perform unpaid at the band competition in Kolín on a Sunday , the two boys are in the stands of a professional motorcycle race. Both are excluded for this. One of the band masters gives a perseverance speech for the survival of traditional folk music because the youth turn to other occupations. The two dismissed boys are accommodated by the other chapel.
background
Miloš Forman understood the final point that the two boys were only swapping places as a triumph over the system. The reason for the creation of this short film was the difficulty in bringing Forman's previously filmed film competition into the cinemas in a suitable format. If there weren't any musicians, it was planned to complement it and Forman only worked on this film on the side: "I devoted less care to it than my other films." The two films were shown in one go.
Web links
- If it's no musicians were in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miloš Forman: Flashback. Memories . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-455-08599-7 , p. 183