Wolf Trap
1958 · 92 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 129 VOTES · DIR. Jiří Weiss
Overview
The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a marriage of convenience with a smotheringly possessive -- and much older -- woman (Jirina Sejbavola). Hoping to temporarily escape his overbearing wife's clutches, the husband strikes up a friendship with her young ward (Jana Brejchova). The relationship blossoms into a deep abiding love, but the jellyfish husband can't bring himself to declare his ardor to the girl. Even after the death of the wife, the husband hasn't the intestinal fortitude to admit his passion, and the results are bleak indeed for the unfortunate ward. Director Jiri Weiss does a masterful job staging his story of frustration and denial against a backdrop of post-WWI bourgeois banality.
Dialogue Timeline — 650 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:22 WOLF TRAP
00:05:54 Right. Take one.
00:09:34 I'll watch your progress every day, Jana
00:12:43 ...
00:15:29 And I never shall be thine
00:18:38 Until the thing's over
00:22:49 But it seems so far away, Bobby.
00:26:06 All Silesia's going?
00:28:16 But I’m going to inherit the lot! ?????
00:31:25 ....
00:34:26 I’m honoured.
00:39:36 - Have you seen my Bobbykins? - I haven't, dear lady
00:45:23 Robert, do you understand my feelings?
00:47:42 ....
00:51:02 Stepfather loves you!
00:56:46 I can't play well enough
01:00:09 ....
01:03:33 Lay there, my lady.
01:08:30 Jana, don't leave me.
01:11:38 My Bobbykins! He loves me!
01:15:13 What are you? Cook? Nurse? Maid?
01:18:13 Goes in the drawing room
01:21:19 Get on! Get on!
01:27:47 Should I have left my sick wife? Who did so much for me?