A magic shell, a broken family, and a little girl's desperate summer wish.
A story about childhood - real and the dreams. After finding a magic shell young Kačenka uses it to model her family life on the sea shore.
Direction
Plívová-Šimková's unsentimental child's-eye view.
Cinematography
Sun-bleached seaside that feels like memory itself.
Director
Věra Plívová-Šimková
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution year — the last children's film of the communist era, quietly subversive in its honesty about family breakdown.
Star Helena Vitovská never acted again; this remains her sole performance, preserved like Kačenka's summer in amber.
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