Legendární film a zároveň deska Pražského výběru. Oboje se celkem povedlo - deska byla zakázaná 6 let, film 13 ;-) Zdeňka Sajfertová naplno předvedla proč platila za přední tehdejší prsatici.
Už z obrázků je myslím jasné, že je to pěkně ulítlý film. Pro zájemce - jak se vlastně stalo, že byl vůbec natočen, popisuje Herz (bohužel jsem to našel jen v angličtině):
"Straka v hrsti was based on a script written by a forbidden author of those times, Antonín Přidal. We wrote it the way that the whole administration of Barrandov thought that it was supposed to be—a medieval fairytale. The studio director wanted to give me 20 thousand million crowns because he thought that when it is medieval it has to be expensive, because of all the decoration and costumes, but I asked him only for four million to create it my way. So they let me do whatever I wanted, they didn't control me, and all of us knew that it would be an enormous disappointment when they saw it.
Because we were worried about them cutting out shots, we figured out a system of using long shots. But we didn't foresee one thing: they wouldn't just be able to cut scenes or shots out, but they could ban the whole film. I had never seen such a horror in the eyes of the administration when they saw the projection of the unedited film, because they had been expecting a fairytale. Instead of a fairytale they saw a stylized, unintelligible film with naked women and with the music of a hated rock group, Pražský výběr. The film was banned.
Fortunately, I convinced the studio director that the film should at least complete post-production. But, we had only a weekend to do it, and it wasn't done the right way and unfortunately it stayed like that. Because the film was "in a safe" for the next 13 years, it got really old. In the second half of the eighties, it was a very ferocious film. From all my films, time hurt this film the most. The film was the last straw for me, and I decided to leave the country. After the film Straka v hrsti it was immediately forbidden to me to make any other films. But at least I got an offer to make a film in Slovakia, it was just a stupid comedy called Sladké starosti [Sweet Cares, 1984] that surprisingly became one of the most famous Slovak comedies."
aneb Trochu jiný pohled na českou filmovou a TV produkci. Vývoj od historie po současnost,
filmy zapomenuté i slavné, scény na kterých jste vyrůstali i takové, kterých si nikdo nevšiml.
