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The Wolf Trap

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Original title

Vlcí jáma

Year

1958

Running time

90 min.

Country

Czechoslovakia

Director

Jirí Weiss

Screenwriter

Jarmila Glazarová. Novel: Jarmila Glazarová

Cast

Music

Jirí Srnka

Cinematography

Václav Hanus (B&W)

Producer

Ceskoslovenský Státní Film

Genre

Drama | 1920s

Synopsis

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a marriage of convenience with a smotheringly possessive – and much older – woman (Jirina Sejbavola). Hoping to temporarily escape his overbearing wife’s clutches, the husband strikes up a friendship with her young ward (Jana Brejchova). The relationship blossoms into a deep abiding love, but the jellyfish husband can’t bring himself to declare his ardor to the girl. Even after the death of the wife, the husband hasn’t the intestinal fortitude to admit his passion, and the results are bleak indeed for the unfortunate ward. Director Jiri Weiss does a masterful job staging his story of frustration and denial against a backdrop of post-WWI bourgeois banality.

Awards: 1958: Venice: FIPRESCI

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The Wolf Trap

1958

Jirí Weiss