The White Lady

Bílá paní

Czechoslovakia

1965

91 Min

Black and White

Czech

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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CAST Vlastimil Brodský, Rudolf Hrusíný, Milos Kopecký, Irena Kačírková, Jiřina Bohdalová, Josef Bek, Cestmír Randa, Václav Voska, Vlasta Chramostová, Vladimír Hlavatý, Ilja Prachař, Darja Hajská, Václav Trégl, Alois Dvorský, Jaroslav Heyduk, Karel Höger, Emanuel Kovařík, Vladimir Linka, Vladimír Menšík, Zdeněk Najman, Milan Neděla, Zdenek Rehor, Helena Růžičková, Milos Vavruska, Josef Vosalík, Milan Kindl, Jiří Koutný, Ilona Kubásková, Robert Vrchota

MUSIC Evžen Illín, Stepán Konícek, Karel Vlach

SOUND Bohumír Brunclík, Miloslav Hulínský, František Šindelář

Synopsis

This castle has its own ghost—a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone’s wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.

Director

Zdeněk Podskalský

Zdeněk Podskalský (1923-1993, Prague) studied at the humanities faculty of Charles University in 1945-49. In 1951 he transferred from FAMU to Moscow’s VGIK film academy. He started out as a TV director and remained faithful to television for the entirety of his long film career, which began in 1957 with the feature comedy Friday Morning. A knack for comedy combined with a talent for period social atmosphere marked all of his best pictures, whether the Faustian When the Woman Butts In (1959), the love story Never Strike a Woman…Even with a Flower (1966), the crime comedy My Dear Aunts and Me (1974), the tragicomedy Ball Lightning (1978), or the comedy The Christening Party (1981). His interest in the musical genre was confirmed by A Night at Karlstein (1973) and The Hit (1980). He also wrote screenplays, theater plays, and directed for the stage. —KVIFF