Continuing the sexual themes of his silents, but here in a mode of everyday realism and delicate romanticism, Machaty's first talkie is a masterpiece of early sound cinema. It plays with sound and has a score by Jaroslav Jezek, the founder of Czech jazz. From Saturday to Sunday tells of a young typist who wishes to trade in the daily drudgery for silk hose and champagne. Her first blind date-spent watching the evocative decadence of a jazz club with a bemonocled gent, and culminating in a sleazy offer of sex for money-sends her running off into the night. She meets her plebian prince charming in a pub, and finds love amidst the appealing squalor of his bachelor flat. "The tale is trivial but the telling expert. Characters are all sharply observed, with a strong sense of social context" (Elliott Stein, Village Voice). The film was co-scripted by the Surrealist poet Vitezslav Nezval (as was Erotikon, though uncredited), and has art direction by Alexander Hackenschmied (later Hammid), whose short films are shown on October 23.