People and Sausages (1948)
If you think shopping malls are crowded, you probably haven’t experienced a Prague canteen in the late 1940s. Two thousand hot dogs sold every day, two thousand human faces and destinies. This film essay presents Prague’s vending machines, snack bars, and cheap cafeterias as a mini-zoo crowded with human specimens. They fight for space, food, or a loving embrace under the microscope of a comically touching director, searching for a theme.
Director:
Pavel Blumenfeld
Writer:
Pavel Blumenfeld
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Věra Bublíková as |
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Karel Pech as |
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Oldřich Musil as |
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Václav Špidla as |
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Zdeněk Buchvaldek as (uncredited) |
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Jiřina Švorcová as (uncredited) |
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Jarka Pižla as (uncredited) |
| Sound | Jarmil Burghauser | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Pavel Blumenfeld | Screenplay |
| Editing | Ferdinand Kursa | Editor |
| Camera | Bohumil Vích | Director of Photography |
| Production | Vojtěch Červený | Production Manager |
| Directing | Pavel Blumenfeld | Director |
| Writing | Pavel Blumenfeld | Story |