The Junk Shop

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The Junk Shop
Directed by	Juraj Herz
Written by	Juraj Herz
Produced by	Milos Broz, Karel Feix
Starring	Václav Halama, Frantisek Ketzek
Cinematography	Rudolf Milic
Edited by	Jaromír Janácek
Music by	Zdeněk Liška
Production company	Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Distributed by	Filmové studio Barrandov
Release date	1965 (1965)
Running time	32 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

The Junk Shop (

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Cast

• Václav Halama as Hanta
• Frantisek Ketzek as Bohoušek
• Bobina Maršatová as Mařenka
• Libuse Palecková as Pepicek's angry mother

Plot

Bohoušek works at his junk shop dealing with very odd people all day. He mentions he would like to win a car in the new contest. He spots Mařenka airing a carpet on the next floor while scantily-clad and imagines her as various famous paintings such as the Mona Lisa. The homely old woman with a mustache Cleo comes in outraged that she is only offered one crown for the love letters from her former suitors. She claims she was a famous beauty and deserves more money for her letters. Hedvicka shows up and weighs herself at 100 pounds on Bohoušek's scale. He tries next and is offended when she says he is 364 pounds. Bohoušek says Hedvicka is lovely and draws circles on the breast of her shirt. She says he deserves to be slapped for that. Cleo shows up again and whines again that her letters are worth so little. She says she was once a famous circus dancer all the men admired and hurls a knife at Bohoušek. He is fed up with her stories and makes her leave. He gives her five crowns to leave him alone. A woman comes in with her son angrily looking for a balance sheet her son lost in the store. They both get lost in the giant pile of Cleo's old love letters at the store and she can't find her son. Hanta and an older coworker then cut up statues of Jesus Christ, angels and other martyrs for their boss. They tell each other vulgar stories and jokes that makes the statue's eyes roll in its head. Hanka says he always expects the "angels" they cut up to bleed and the older man remarks

and stacking the bits of the angel statues on one another. He says he pities Hanta for being such a scoundrel and that he will never be a true artist like him. He says his pervert character is all just an act because of the pointlessness of existence. Hanta leaves and tries to hit the mechanical sign in the main hall on the way out but it takes a couple of attempts.

Production

This film was made as part of the anthology film

The runtime is a little over 32 minutes. It became the Herz's first short film and his debut as a director.

Bohumil Hrabal said this was his favorite story from the ones shot for the movie Pearls of the Deep.[7] Hrabal gave him another story to film but the government censors would not permit it to be made.

Score

The movie was scored by Zdenek Liska. Liska had his own editing table for this film. He'd run the film and do the music his way. He did his own style music and at the spots in the film he chose completely against Juraj Herz's orders. Herz thought the finished product was superb though.^[8]

Release

The film was released as an extra with the DVD of The Cremator by The Criterion Collection.^[9] It is a high-definition digital transfer. The DVD is Criterion spine #1023.

References

External links

• The Junk Shop at
  IMDb