Matěj Hůrka, a teenage bricklayer's apprentice, a young man who is delicate in matters of love, lives with his grandmother in a country cottage. He struggles with love problems, but waits in vain for some advice as his vivacious grandmother remarries an equally vivacious pensioner. The enterprising eldest generation thus contrasts to some extent with the youth, which is embarrassed.
Acting
Ivan Wiesner's painfully authentic teenage stiffness — bless his awkward heart.
Costume
Peak 1981 Czechoslovakia: every outfit screams 'state-approved fashion.'
Director
Milan Muchna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures late-socialist Czechoslovakia's rural youth culture, where state youth organizations and traditional village life awkwardly coexisted.
Director Milan Muchna was primarily a theatre director; this remains one of his few film credits, explaining the stagey conversational rhythms.
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