Success

Vladimír Drha / Czechoslovakia / 1965 / 13 min.

synopsis

A survey is being conducted on the streets of Prague about popular Czech singers, specifically Karel Gott and the rumours surrounding his life. We see the interviewees and the reporter only in photographs. In his family villa, Gott then describes to the reporter (Vít Olmer) his relationship with his young female fans and how rumours and gossip (about him having died, being homosexual, and the like) contribute to his popularity. Excerpts from his song Zloděj dobytka (Cattle Rustler) are featured here. Drha later returned to the subject in the film On (Him, 1968). The work is a television exercise by second-year students of the Department of Film Directing.

biography

Vladimír Drha (1944–2017) graduated in film and television directing from FAMU in 1968. While there, he also directed Richarda Fremunda malované curriculum (Richard Fremund’s Illustrated Curriculum, 1964) and Ceremoniál (The Ceremony, 1966). He created a long series of short films, television films and feature films, the most notable of which were Dneska přišel nový kluk (A New Boy Arrived Today, 1981), Muka obraznosti (The Torments of Imagination, 1989) and Anglické jahody (English Strawberries, 2008).