We Produce Glycerin

Eugen Mateička / Slovakia / 1943 / Czech Premiere / 7 min.

synopsis

An industrial film about a Slovak patent - the production of glycerine from sugar beet, with the young František Zvarik in an insightful lead role.

The film conveys to the public a fresh Slovak patent: the production of glycerine from sugar beet in the glycerine factory in Leopoldov. However, this is no ordinary “industrial film”: what is new, apart from the modernity of the invention, is its “sexy” dimension. The whole process is accompanied, and introduced, by an attractive young man - a fresh acquisition of the Slovak National Theatre, the operetta actor František Zvarík. The production film thereby becomes - and not for the first time in the portfolio of Nástup - a star vehicle.

biography

Eugen Mateíčka (1914–1996)
When the production department of Nástup was established in 1941, the former radio operator, Mateíčka, was one of its first acquisitions. He made less than a dozen films at Nástup. Although after the war he worked briefly as a film correspondent (head of the Film Chronicle), and as a documentary filmmaker on agricultural subjects, he was later weaned off of film, and rededicated himself to editorial work.