33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
THINGS TO COME

KONEC SRPNA V HOTELU OZON

THE END OF AUGUST AT THE HOTEL OZONE

by Jan Schmidt

Country: Czechoslovakia

Year: 1967

Duration: 87'

Fifteen years have passed since the atomic war and the world has been reduced to a desert. In fields and forests, a group of survivors hunts and seeks refuge from the night and the cold: eight girls led by an old woman, the only one who knew the world before the Holocaust. One day, in the broken-down Hotel Ozon, they finally come upon an old man. Directed by Jan Schmidt, a member of Prague’s Nova Vlna, a poetic, cruel and distressing example of the zenith of Czech sci-fi.

FILM DIRECTOR

CAST & CREDITS

Biography

film director

Jan Schmidt

FILMOGRAFIA

Cesta domu (cm, 1960), Cernobílá Sylva (Black and White Sylva, cm, 1961), Postava k podpírání (coregia/codirector Pavel Jurácek, cm, 1963), Kolonie Lanfieri (The Lanfier Colony, 1969), Luk královny Dorotky (1971), Vodník a Zuzana (tv, 1974), Siroty (tv, mm, 1974), Nevesta s nejkrásnejsíma ocima (The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes, 1978), Osada havranu (Settlement of Crows, 1978), Na veliké rece (1978), Volání rodu (1979), Koncert (1982) Smrt talentovaného sevce (The Death of a Talented Cobbler, 1983), Podfuk (1985), Vracenky (1991), Jak si zaslouzit princeznu (How to Deserve a Princess, 1995).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Jan Schmidt
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Pavel Jurácek
fotografia/cinematography
Jirí Macák
montaggio/film editing
Miroslav Hájek
musica/music
Jan Klusák
scenografia/production design
Oldrich Bosák
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jitka Horejsi (Martha), Vanda Kalinová (Judith), Alena Lippertová (Eva), Irina Lzicarová (Anna), Natalie Maslovová (Magdalen)
produzione/production
Ceskoslovenský armádní film