No Entrance

No Entrance (Czech: Vstup zakázán) is a 1960 Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil and Milan Vošmik. The film consists of 2 segments - The Chase (directed by Vláčil) and The Wandering (directed by Vošmik). Both segments are stories from life of Czechoslovk border guard.[1]

No Entrance
Directed byFrantisek Vlácil
Milan Vošmik
Written byRudolf Kalčík, František Vláčil, Jaroslav Klíma
StarringZdeněk Kutil, Jan Němec, Vladimír Hrubý, Jiřina Švorcová
CinematographyJan Čuříkm Ján Cifra, Josef Novotný
Production
company
Release date
  • 20 May 1960 (1960-05-20)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguagesCzech
Slovak

Plot

The Chase

Young Border Guard accompanies Sergeant Major Border Guard on a patrol. They find tracks in a snow and follow them. They are met with snow storm and they get lost to each other Sergeant Major falls asleep but wakes up when he hears gunshots. He finds Young Border Guard shot. He gets him to a Rural house where a young woman lives. She tells him about suspicious man who was there. Sergeant Major goes after the saboteur and catches him as the Young Border Guard dies.[2]

The Wandering

Lieutenant Štěpánek lives with his family in a village in Šumava near border. Štěpánek's wife Jiřina doesn't like it there and wants to return to inlands. Štěpánek doesn't want to leave his job and is unhappy with his wife's lamentations. Their son Péťa adores his father. One day Jiřina starts to pack up when Štěpánek is on duty. Péťa runs away when he finds out his father wouldn't go with them. Everybody in the village then help to find Péťa and Jiřina decides to stay.[3]

Cast

The Chase
  • Zdeněk Kutil as Sergeant Major Border Guard
  • Jan Němec as Young Border Guard
  • Václav Irmanov as Saboteur
  • Valentina Thielová as Rural Woman

The Wandering
  • Vladimír Hrubý as Lieutenant Štěpánek - border guard
  • Jiřina Švorcová as Jirina - Štěpánek's wife
  • Míša Staninec as Péťa - Štěpánek's son
  • Ota Sklenčka as Captain
  • Otto Lackovič as Varga
  • Světla Amortová as Součková
  • Hermína Vojtová as Endlová
  • František Miška as Officer
  • Adolf Filip as Forester

References
  1. "Vstup zakázán (1959)". Czech and Slovak Film Database. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. "Pronásledování". www.nostalghia.cz. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  3. "Bloudění (1959)". Filmový přehled (in Czech). Retrieved 27 October 2017.
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