Threat

Zdenek Sirový, 1978

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Summary

Major changes are taking place at a prominent metallurgical enterprise: the experienced but ailing head of operations Budil is being replaced and workers are struggling to install a new exhauster. While the offended Budil, who has sacrificed everything for his work, struggles to accept his young substitute, a catastrophe is brewing in the gasworks. It threatens to destroy an entire city… Due to his previous filmmaking activities and political views, director Zdeněk Sirový was made to repent in the 1970s. Together with screenwriter Jiří Křižan they were later allowed to make three adventure films based on the short stories of Jack London; Kaňon samé zlato (A Canyon Full of Gold, 1970), Poslední výstřel Davida Sandela (David Sandel’s Last Shot, 1971) and Claim na Hluchém potoku (The Claim at the Deaf Creek, 1971) as well as two films about industry; Hrozba (Threat, 1978) and Paragraf 224 (Paragraph 224, 1979). With the popular Vladimír Menšík in the lead role, the film bears some of the hallmarks of a typical Hollywood disaster movie.
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About a film

Production year 1978
Countries Czechoslovakia
Categories film
Genres drama
Form feature
Duration 85 min
Director Zdenek Sirový
Cast Vladimír Menšík, Ladislav Frej, Vladimír Durdík, Jaroslav Rozsíval, Jiří Wohanka
Director of photography Jiří Macák
Screenplay Jiří Křižan, Zdenek Sirový
Editor Zdeněk Stehlík
Production designer Jindřich Goetz
Music Luboš Fišer
Sound designer Jiří Lenoch