On the Sunny Side (1933 film)

On the Sunny Side (Czech: Na sluneční straně) is a 1933 Czech drama film by the director Vladislav Vančura.[1] The film is a social drama dealing with the themes of children poverty and neglect.

On the Sunny Side
Directed byVladislav Vančura
Produced byJulius Schmitt
Screenplay byVítězslav Nezval
Roman Jakobson
Miloslav Disman
Music byJiří Fiala
Eman Fiala
CinematographyJan Stallich
Jaroslav Blažek
Edited byJiří Slavíček
Production
company
AB
Distributed byAB
Release date
  • 1 December 1933 (1933-12-01)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguageCzech

Production

Vančura was a Marxist and his ideas for the movie were influenced by a Russian educator Anton Makarenko. The screenplay was written by an avantgarde writer Vítězslav Nezval, a literary theorist Roman Jakobson and a pedagogue Miloslav Disman. The film was shot in the streets of Prague. The children's home scenes were shot at Zbraslav Monastery.[2]

Plot

Babula is growing up in a rich family, but she's neglected by her parents. She's friends with a son of her family's maid, Honza. When Honza and his mother are thrown out by Babula's father, the two children perform on the streets to earn money. They get arrested and Honza is sent to a children's home 'On the Sunny Side'. Babula's mother tries to commit suicide and Alžběta is sent to the same place. In the children's home their lives get better under the influence of their progressive teacher.[1]

Cast

Release

The premiere was held in Prague on 1 December 1933.[1] The film was received negatively by film critics. The reviews mentioned amateurish direction and technical qualities of the movie.[3] In 2017 the film was screened at MoMA as a part of Czech cinema retrospective 'Ecstasy and Irony: Czech Cinema, 1927–1943'.[4]

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References
  1. "On the Sunny Side". Filmový přehled. NFA. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  2. "Na sluneční straně". Filmová místa. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  3. Pavel Taussig (2019). Barrandovská bohéma? (in Czech). Albatros Media. p. 26.
  4. "Ecstasy and Irony: Czech Cinema, 1927–1943". MoMA. April 2017.


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