Vertigo

Vertigo

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Director:Karel Kachyňa
Cast:Eva Šolcová, Petr Skála, Oldřich Velen, Jaroslav Radimecký
Premiere:8. February 1963
Length:82 minutes
Genre:Drama

Director: Karel Kachyňa  •  Cast: Eva Šolcová, Petr Skála, Oldřich Velen, Jaroslav Radimecký, Karel Hospodský

The cooperation of director Karel Kachyňa and screenwriter Jan Procházka brought us several great films such as A Carriage Going to Vienna (1966) and The Ear (1969, premiered in 1990). The unfairly overlooked Vertigo is worthy of watching for a number of reasons, be it the acting performance of fresh talents, music or camerawork. The 17-year-old Božka lives with her father in the Ore Mountains and helps him out in a small hotel accommodating mi-ners looking for tin ore. A strange yet unexpressed attraction is budding between the bright and cheeky Božka and the experienced driver Gába. The film is full of dizziness (as its title suggests) in the form of sophisticated visual compositions enhanced by the widescreen for-mat. Together with Trials and Tribulations (1961) and The High Wall (1963), it forms a loose trilogy of films connected with the theme of coming of age and emotional outbursts of the female protagonists.

Length: 82 min

Year: 1962
Local premiere date: 8. February 1963
World premiere date: 8. February 1963

Country of origin:

  • Czechoslovakia

Director: Karel Kachyňa  •  Cast: Eva Šolcová, Petr Skála, Oldřich Velen, Jaroslav Radimecký, Karel Hospodský

The cooperation of director Karel Kachyňa and screenwriter Jan Procházka brought us several great films such as A Carriage Going to Vienna (1966) and The Ear (1969, premiered in 1990). The unfairly overlooked Vertigo is worthy of watching for a number of reasons, be it the acting performance of fresh talents, music or camerawork. The 17-year-old Božka lives with her father in the Ore Mountains and helps him out in a small hotel accommodating mi-ners looking for tin ore. A strange yet unexpressed attraction is budding between the bright and cheeky Božka and the experienced driver Gába. The film is full of dizziness (as its title suggests) in the form of sophisticated visual compositions enhanced by the widescreen for-mat. Together with Trials and Tribulations (1961) and The High Wall (1963), it forms a loose trilogy of films connected with the theme of coming of age and emotional outbursts of the female protagonists.

Year: 1962
Local premiere date: 8. February 1963
World premiere date: 8. February 1963

Country of origin:

  • Czechoslovakia