"FILMEXPORT HOME VIDEO Presents" "TALENT COMPETITION" "Part I If the Bands Were No More" "Story and Screenplay by" "Cast" "Conducted by" "Associate Producer 2nd Cameraman" "Editor's Assistant Script" "Director's Assistant Assistant Director" "Sound Editor" "Film Editor" "Produced by" "Director of Photography" "Directed by" "Like that, see?" "Let's begin nicely!" "To accompany someone, you see... is elegance itself." "Each of you must hear the solo player." "Quite clearly!" "If I don't hear him, I don't play well." "Mach, play it if you can, but don't lower it." "If not, this section will take over." "Mr. Stela will add a bit." "Sleeping, eh?" "What's the matter?" "Were you mushroom picking?" " At a party." " At a party, I see." "One sure is sleepy after a party." "I was sleepy myself on Friday morning." "I couldn't get rid of the foul taste in my mouth." "Disgusting." "After all I've seen." "The worst thing was to see them soaked in the morning." "Well, let's begin!" "Organ." "Get ready!" "You don't have..." "Let's go!" "Wait a moment." "The Lachian Serenade." "Do you know where Lachia is?" "I think it's the birthplace of..." "Janacek." " Janacek." "Hukvaldy and thereabouts." "What else did Janacek compose?" "It bears on this piece." "The Lachian Dances." "So, this is the Lachian Serenade composed by..." "Josef Lastuvka, who is said to live in Ostrava." "And he's a professor at some arts school or academy." "He'll be glad." "We've sent him the program." "He'll be glad we're playing it." "Well." "Let's play it nicely." "Come on." "Everyone will play." "Every player here is a solo player." "Stop!" "Lower tones!" "Afine, rounded, cultured tone!" "Stop!" "Make it softer." "Just softer." "Yes?" "Once more!" "Stop!" "I hear someone playing a comb and not a clarinet." "Hold it!" "Try to play the accompaniment, so that they can have a rest." "The melody in this figure." "Try the accompaniment." "It's not that difficult." "It's not that difficult with the melody." "It means that you're playing in one second." "Let's begin!" "One time ahead." "I'm counting:" "One, two!" "Stop!" "Mind that it's not there every time to make it fit esta, esta, estata." "It's not every time, keep that in mind!" "The accompaniment once more." "And the melody that's written in the figure." "One, two!" "Stop!" "One of you is too anxious!" "You're getting close with the "es", but I don't want to exhaust my solo player." "The flute there, it must be like a violin, smooth as butter." "You see, you can't feel it without a heart." "You can't even cut bread without a heart." "Let alone entice any tone from a horn." "Every musician must have a young heart." "And we do, Kaslik, don't we?" "Yes." " We still like girls." "Even if we are..." "if we have less hair." "We don't mind at all." "We have hidden beauty instead." "Including the trombones at the start." "Including the trombones at the start." "There are two quarters there!" "Don't be afraid." "It's out of tune." "It's better..." "Keep in mind what Comrade Nornes says." "It's better not to play at all than to play out of tune." "Your colleague will play it, if there are 2 or 3, he'll play better." "That's true." "It's better not to play at all than to play out of tune." "You're lying!" "You're lying!" "I can't forgive you, as I don't know how far are you with the question of religion." "But what you're saying isn't true." "You can't sleep." "Right, keep yelling." "Let's go, Kucera is all horny." "There's an "o" there." "Don't knock out... the notes you hold." "You can't do any "wow, wow" in those notes." "As we've stopped, fellows..." "I've said many times that if we want to work collectively, we also must think collectively." "To any workplace you go, you'll hear people say:" "We still have too many old people." "We don't know what you're doing!" "I won't get into this, you know me, but I'd like to remind the young that if the leading players and the devoted players..." "Machacek here travels 25 kilometres, and Solar travels ten." "Some travel several kilometres on a bike, others on foot from work." "From the collective farm, from the factory." "And a young man doesn't come and hangs about someplace." "I'm not sure what kind of an attitude is that... towards the whole collective." "And there are cases like that." "We have to deal with them." "Because time has changed." "And every one of you surely wants to play." "We all have some hobby we can enjoy after work, don't we?" "Yet, this is the finest of all hobbies." "Music." "Music is ennobling." "Especially if it's done well." "And when you disregard the pints, the pipes and the rest." "Rhýthm and tone!" "Those are the two preconditions." "With that, the technical part will be easy for you to handle." "You know why we are playing tomorrow." "The Kmoch's Brass Band Festival in Kolin." "That's our priority." "We are Kmoch's music, we are the bearers of its tradition." "Our name is there!" "We are slightly disadvantaged by the fact that we have no tradition." "Therefore, there's nothing left to do than to do our best." "With our good performance we must get among those orchestras that have or will have repute." "This means to make our Firemen's Band..." "They can play any way they like, but we will present ourselves at our best." "It is on each and everyone of us and we can see, who didn't come to rehearsals." "We can't play as we're used to." "Or as we were used to." "That's not possible." "Let's play, and I just remind once more, please drink only lemonade before and after!" "Clear and sound heads." "And finally..." "Your minds must be clear." "No glutted entrails." "Right?" "Hold on!" "None of us here will fail to come at all or come late." "Even if he should get up from bed or from the hospital, he will come!" "He will come here, else we will come for him!" "Especially today, when times are hard for brass bands, as you know." "And how many sly dogs would love to see the end of us." "We'll show them we won't end anýthing." "Let them do it themselves!" "And I believe that I'm right and expressing the thoughts of you all that you're doing it because you like our fine Czech music." "It goes like this." "It's very simple." "As if it were a matter of course for us." "We have some reputation!" "We are fine chaps." "We have some muscles." "Blood is running in our veins and not whey!" "Let's go!" "And..." "No wind." "Let's only play the afterpiece." "Play the halftone, the pause nicely." "Not by force, not like..." "That was about all." "Three!" "And..." "Frantisek Kmoch, band leader" "It indeed is a quite noble and brave deed that the town of Kolin and with it our whole country endorse the legacy of Frantisek Kmoch." "That they preserve the legacy and stand for it." "It would be a gross mistake for our present-day as well as for the future of our national culture and musical culture, if we underestimate the values created by Kmoch, if we undervalue the deeds and incentives, by which he had affected the development of our nation's life." "Many folk brass band leaders, looking at the further development and the future with no hope, sometimes throw away their batons prematurely." "They are losing faith and that is a mistake." "Their first and foremost duty is to unite." "To search for new paths of development both collectively and individually." "And to fight for the future of folk brass music by earnest deeds." "Our music is quite fortunate that there still are musicians and band leaders who remain faithful to the tradition and who are seeking new paths." "In them we have the guarantee that they will lead folk brass music to a new upsurge." "Accordion." "First saxophone." "Accordion." "First saxophone." "Second saxophone, Ivan." "Third, Joe." "Second trumpet." "First trumpet." "Contrabass." "Drums." "Don't sit down, Blumental." "You can leave." "But how come?" "You didn't play last time at Kmoch's festival, where we played for free, so you don't have to play for money." "You can leave." "How come?" "We won't discuss it today." "Go, we'll discuss it elsewhere." "You can go." "You're throwing me out, eh?" "No, I'm not throwing you out." "God forbid!" "But just imagine and you must realize that the old people, our fathers, got up early so they could play at the second Kmoch's festival." "And you come to a rehearsal like some prince, when we are rehearsing to play for money." "Don't be angry, but it's not possible." "You only came to make some money." "And the others could play for free." "I'm sorry, but it's no go." "We either do music with love or for money." "Or both, eh?" "We will continue without Blumental." "The Dreaming, please." "Alright, goodbye." " Goodbye." "I don't understand." "A heart of a musician." "One has to have the ardour for such a thing." "In that case, it cannot happen that he wouldn't come." "Is this possible?" "Where would this lead?" "If we acted like this?" "If more members did the same thing?" "I don't know." "We will not work like this!" "That's not possible." "I like young people." "Ardent." "Why there is nothing more beautiful in the world than music!" "You have other interests, though." "I will not persuade you more!" "Take your things and go where your heart is leading you!" "We don't need you here!" "No!" "Go!" "I don't want to see you here again!" "And you should be careful!" "Pull yourself together!" "Because if you don't change, you'll be next!" "You know how I like young people." "As there's no other way in music." "Let's begin, fellows." "See you." "Better not." "Let's begin, we don't have much time!" "Follow the note values!" "We are accompanying a deceased on his last journey." "We are not playing to bring tears to people's eyes, but let the relatives weep." "They paid for it." "Let's begin, eh?" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Damn it!" "More out of tune!" "Make the corps come to life!" "We've always played it like that." " I know, for fifty years!" "And badly!" "Wait." "Welcome." " Thank you." "What's your name?" " Blumental." "How long are you playing?" " For a year and a half." "I almost forgot, this is our new member." "Young." "Do you know the scales?" " Not much." " I see." "Remember the musician's prayer." "The scales and this." "First and foremost your mouthpiece hold, love, endurance and only then... here." "What you get for it, eh?" " Yeah." " So, unpack your stuff." "Once more, fellows." "Alright?" "Grave." "Do you know what "grave" means?" "Solemnly!" "Ceremoniously!" "Let's go!" "Part II Talent Competition" "Story and Screenplay by" "You will see Jiri Suchy with Jiri Slitr and..." "You will catch sight of" "Blue Stockings Music by / Lyrics by" "Performed by" "The Crystal Band" "Script Camera Assistant" "Film Editor's Assistant Sound Editor's Assistant" "Photoreporter Sound Effects" "Lighting Assistant Director" "Associate Producer" "Sound Editor" "Film Editor" "Director of Photography" "Produced by" "Directed by" "Made by Creative Group" "Film Studio" "This film was shot in authentic settings with a reportage camera on a 16mm film." "Processed by" "Theatre" "I also remember that the girl serving us had a birthmark on her cheek." "If you keep reminding me which girl had what and where," "I'm getting out here." "Alright, she didn't." "Very well, if you wish." "She did, she did." "You bad boy!" "I beg your pardon, I would like to..." "Someone asked at the beginning of this show, whether Jonas had really existed, or whether we made him up." "I would like to add to this that Jonas was, is and will be." "Stop!" "Excuse me, we are rehearsing here if you don't mind!" "All of a sudden you have so many things to say and just now!" "You at the door, either come in or go out, but close the door and be quiet!" "Jiri, take it from that..." "I also remember that the girl serving us had a birthmark on her cheek." "Look, if you keep reminding me which girl had what and where, I'm getting out here." "Alright, she didn't." " As you wish." "But she did, she did." "You bad boy!" "I would like to throw in a word." "Throw it." " What?" "Someone asked at the beginning of this show, whether Jonas had really existed, or whether we made him up." "I would like to add to this that Jonas was, is and will be." "Just by the bye." "We haven't seen Jonas since, as the blond guy here remarked." "But we know Jonas like the back of our hand, and we are able to reckon what he is signing today and where." "There's an F sharp there." "I don't hear myself at all." "But we do..." "We hear you quite well here." "Friends, please, you at the back, who have borrowed the stepladder and pulled down the curtain, be so kind and put it in order." "We're an amateur orchestra and we would have to pay it ourselves." "Thank you." "Let's try the breaking, alright?" "You're off key, Vera." "You're too low." " It's not me, it's Bohuna." "Let's try it without you, alright?" "It's clear." "And now with you." "You're too low." "Too low!" "Higher, please!" " It's not me, it's Bohuna." "Together, alright?" " Let's go!" "I can't help it, it's clear." "Do you have something against it?" "It needs to be a bit higher." "A little bit!" "Don't you hear it, Vera?" "This is no use." "Try to concentrate!" "On stage, but hurry, will you?" "Let's go, guys!" "Milan, take the score, will you?" "Don't forget it, please." "Do you know her?" " No, but I don't like her." "Why?" "I like her." " The way she's singing!" "Could I leave for a moment, sir, I have to go somewhere." "Where?" " To the court." " The court?" "I hope you didn't do anýthing?" " No, sir, I received summons." "Summons?" " And do you have it?" "I received it together with my parents and mother took it." "What do you mean by together with your parents?" "They are summoned too, you see, they're getting divorced." "I see, that's something different." "Go and come back as soon as possible." "Thank you, sir." " You're welcome, goodbye." "Vera Sormova!" "Is that you?" " No." "Vlasta Hanusova!" "You play the piano, eh?" "You think you could play something for us?" "Well, alright." "What will you play?" " But I really don't know anýthing." "You must know something, else how would you know that you can play the piano." "But I'll make a lot of mistakes." "We all make mistakes." "We'll cast a blind eye on a few mistakes." "Alright." "But if I make some..." "And that interlude!" "She can't leave when we need her!" "You're Kresadlova?" " My name is Subrtova." "I don't need you." "I need Kresadlova." "Kresadlova!" "Come here, I'll put your name down." "Kresadlova is under "K"." "Thank you, we'll let you know." "Next, please!" "Hullo." "My name is Kresadlova." "Can I sing an English song?" "I'm sorry, I wasn't listening." "What did you say?" "If I could sing an English song." "Of course." "Arrange it with Jiri Slitr over there." "Hullo, I'm Kresadlova." "I'll sing an English song called "Baby"." "Higher!" "Higher!" "You're too low!" "Now, say your name into the microphone." "Kresadlova." "Excuse me, but I won't sing." "I've changed my mind." "Why?" " I'm sorry, goodbye." "Hullo." " Hullo." "My brother sends his regards." " Do I know him?" "No, he knows you." " I see, send him my regards too." " I will." "What will you sing?" "What did you prepare?" "A sailor song." "But to which microphone?" "This one, that one or where?" "Pick any one..." "Whichever you wish." "We are democrats." " Pick one yourself." "I forgot the words!" "One more verse!" "Is that enough?" " Absolutely enough, thank you." "It was good, thank you." "We'll let you know." "You're welcome." "See you!" "Hullo." " Hullo." "You also came to the audition?" " I sure did." "The thing is that we only need girls." "I could accompany her, if it's possible." "I'd like to try." "We could sing "Mary Lou" together." "If it's possible." "Alright, try it." "Thank you." "Can you sing something by yourself?" "I've prepared one song." " Try it alone then." "Thank you." "Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Could you tell me if I succeeded or not?" "We must listen to you first." "We recorded you and we'll let you know later." "We'll send you a letter." "You see, I need to know today, because..." "They didn't give me a leave at work, so I ran away." "I thought that if tell them I quit I wouldn't have to go back." "I see, but it's not our fault." "I know and I'm not angry at you because of that." "Could you at least listen to it?" "Alright, I will tell you." "You didn't succeed." "Thank you very much." "Goodbye." "Could you at least give me your autograph?" "Thank you." "Hi." " Hi." "Where were you?" " Home." "Tune up, Peter!" "Higher!" "Milan, add more juice to those two times." "Or it's no use." "Vera!" "Vera, why are you late?" "My parents didn't want to let me go out." " I see." "Well, once more, guys." "Why did you lie?" "What do you think you're doing?" "Do you think you can make a fool of me?" "Or that I'm some blockhead that you can make believe anýthing?" "If you want to go somewhere you should tell the truth and not lies!" "This was the last time you did this!" "Keep that in mind!" "Where were you really?" " At a theatre audition." "At a theatre." "That's strange." "And did you succeed?" " I did." "Really?" " Honest." "But they have no vacancies now, they can hire me only next year." "I see." "Is this possible at all?" "The End"