Requiem for a Maiden (Requiem pro panenku)

No!

No!

No, Daddy! Please! Let me go!

Let me go! No, Daddy!

No!

No!

Starring

From a reportage by Josef Klíma

Screenplay by

Produced by

Set Design

INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL WELFARE NA ŠANCÍCH

Sound Recordist

Edited by

Music by

Director of Photography

Directed by

Come on.

Take off your hat. Sit down.

Take off your shoes and put on these slippers.

Come on!

This film is based on actual events from 1984

Hurry up!

- Can you do a wee-wee on your own? - What?

- Can you do a wee-wee on your own? - Yeah.

Well, off you go and do a wee.

Open your mouth.

And you will sleep like a baby.

Lie down. Did you hear me? Lie down.

That's it. Close your eyes and sleep.

Do you understand? Close your eyes!

What do you want?

Are you staying with us?

No, I'm here only for the night.

- You aren't staying here forever? - As if I would.

Quiet! And sleep!

That's Péťa. You have to obey her.

We have to go to sleep.

You're staying here.

I know you are.

I'd have to be simple to stay here.

Marika Fárová, born 1968,

mother died when she was four,

lived with her father,

October 25, 1983

he brutally raped her.

Come on, they've opened up.

Silence! Put your hands behind your backs.

Do you hear? Let's wait for breakfast.

Get your hands away from your face!

Leave that marmalade alone! Don't pick your nose!

She's new, they brought her in last night.

There will be trouble with her.

Don't play with the marmalade!

Stop staring and eat!

Božíková, stop talking and eat!

Come on, stop playing and eat!

- Are there all girls here? - Take the roll in your hand!

- Who's the one that keeps ranting on? - Take the roll in your hand and eat!

Jesus Christ, that's so much work with you!

Let's go, quickly! Come on!

Up, down.

No one's playing the cripple!

One, two.

One, two.

Down, up.

One, two. Keep the pace!

Faster! One, two.

One, two.

Up, down. One, two.

One, two.

One, two.

Keep the pace.

- You've got to exercise! - I'm not doing this.

What are you waiting for?

I'm not some trained monkey. You're bawling like an idiot!

You'll do what they do. I'm not catering for some crazy.

You're the crazy one and I'm going to complain about you.

One, two!

Good. Put your clothes on.

Sit down.

What does this remind you of?

- A butterfly. - A butterfly, good.

And this?

I don't know. A bird with long ears.

A bird with long ears, very good.

And this?

Fire.

Fire.

I haven't heard that before. Good.

Now, read these numbers.

If you're looking for your room, it's one floor down.

But someone's crying. Can't you hear it?

She's sick, like all the girls on this floor.

If you slept like the others you wouldn't hear it.

Why is it locked? She might have fallen out of bed.

Go to bed, little girl. You had to obey your father as well before he...

If you're good, you'll like it here.

- Good night. - If you can't sleep, count sheep.

When I was young I used to count sheep, too.

The first sheep jumped over the fence.

The second sheep jumped over the fence.

The third sheep jumped over the fence.

Leave it, it's for the carers!

See how clever you are.

Would you like one, too?

Take one.

You have to breathe it in.

Are you crazy?

What if she'll like it more than I like her?

Tidy all this up! Hurry up!

"Lenin"! "Lenin", you idiot!

I said "Lenin"! You'll get shower again.

Put it in there!

Come on!

Did you draw this?

It's nice.

Why do you keep drawing the same door handle?

- Well, girls, finish up. - Hurry up, into line!

Péťa, get the tools together and we'll go and wash.

Quickly!

Come on!

- He wears striped trousers. - Give it to me!

And polished shoes and goes round with girls from the factory.

Look.

- The princess... - The princess at the ball

she lost her beads, her dad, a mighty king, called Honzík.

The princess at the ball lost her beads.

Her dad, a mighty king, called Honzík.

Give her the beads.

Don' do that.

May I clap?

Quiet! Bedtime!

It stinks here!

What have you got there?

Where did you get it from? You can't have that here.

Who put it on for you?

Where did you get it from?

Give it to me! You could hurt yourself.

You can't bawl like that here! Péťa!

The princess at the ball lost her beads.

Here's a nice snack, eat it up! You'll calm down.

- Don't I bother you? - Péťa, put her to bed.

Marika,

I'm sad.

Come on.

Thank you.

One is the way to Tábor,

the other is the way from Tábor.

Where is a telephone here, Johanka?

A telephone. You take it in your hand

and talk into it. You hear someone on the other end.

- Who? - The person you're calling.

- Who? - Quiet! I need to sleep!

Come on.

There.

- Hello. - What are you doing here?

What are you doing here?

What are you grinning at?

Be quiet!

Quiet!

- Help! - Shut up, someone will come.

Quiet! Be quiet!

Be quiet!

Be quiet!

- Let her go! - What, she...

Wait!

It strings!

Shut up, or Procházková will come.

And you'll have to explain why you wanted to do in the repairman.

I'd like to know what he was repairing around here.

- How's my behaviour? - Dainty.

- Thank you. - You forgot your tools, didn't you?

There are some jobs I don't need special tools for.

You know, girl?

That's it, girls.

Off you go to bed.

- I need to make a phone call. - Really?

Where to?

To the Hradec children's home, where I belong.

There's a phone over there, if you can manage it.

This is an internal phone.

And that one's locked.

If you don't let me phone, I'll tell them about your friend.

What have you done? Do you hear me? What have you done?

- Shut up! - Get her injection!

I don't want anything to do with what goes on here.

Or with your pills and drugs either.

They've used up the same amount for the whole of last year.

As if they we're using it for a herd of elephants.

We're not going to stand this from you, doctor.

To make things clear,

it is within my power to punish any of the girls.

When the new training head comes, let her do as she wants.

It's shit-all use anyway!

That's where you're very wrong.

You can't do what you want here.

And you can't use these as punishment.

They're for calming the girls down!

Only girls on the list approved by you get the shower.