Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 73 min
- Language
- Czech
- Country
- XC
- Frights
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Czech — subtitles on.
The story
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
- puberty
- corruption
- based on novel or book
- magic
- vampire
- sexuality
- allegory
- innocence
- supernatural
- priest
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jaroslava Schallerová
Valerie
Helena Anýžová
Grandmother / Elsa / Mother / Redhead
Petr Kopřiva
Orlík
Jiří Prýmek
Tchoř-Constable
- Jan Klusák — Gracián
- Libuše Komancová — Handmaid in Training
- Karel Engel — Coachman Ondřej
- Alena Stojáková — Hedvika
- Otto Hradecký — Landlord
- Martin Wielgus — Tchoř-Father
- Jiřina Machalická — Flower Girl
- Michaela Klocová — Handmaid
- Zdenka Kovářová — Handmaid
- Bedřiška Chalupská — Handmaid
- Robert Nezval — Drummer
- Directed
- Jaromil Jireš
- Written
- Jaromil Jireš, Ester Krumbachová
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 318 ratings
- Studio
- Filmové studio Barrandov
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