Directed by:
Miloš FormanCinematography:
Jan NěmečekComposer:
Jiří ŠlitrCast:
Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Novotná, Jan Vostrčil, Vladimír Pucholt, Pavel Sedláček, Zdeněk Kulhánek, František Kosina, Josef Koza, Božena Matušková (more)VOD (1)
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The sixteen-year old apprentice Petr begins his training in a self-service shop. The manager of the shop, the only man among all the women, entrusts the young flabbergasted man with his first task - to move around the shop and catch potential thieves. Petr does his best but the manager reprehends him for being too conspicuous in his white cloak. Petr finds behaviour of an elderly man suspicious, and when he confides this to the cashier, the woman sends him to follow the man. The perplexed youth shadows the man throughout the city for the rest of the shift. Petr does not get on well with his parents - his mother sees only a small boy in him and his father takes pleasure in pontificating to him in long monologues. Petr spends Sunday at a bathing pool with the girl, who accepts his inept courting with a degree of affection. The bricklayer's apprentice Čenda disturbs them and, with the support of his friend Zdeněk, tries to start a fight. The dissention ends with the broken elastic of Zdeněk's trunks. At a dance where they all meet together again, Čenda borrows twenty crowns from Petr, gets drunk and falls asleep. In the shop, Petr spots a woman trying to squeeze a sack of sweets into her bag. But, after the failure of his first efforts, he does not do anything. At home, he confides to his father, but the old man again overwhelms him with lots of clichés. The father calms down only upon finding out that nobody knows about the affair. Čenda comes to them to give back the borrowed sum and the father forces him to display to Petr his work-worn palms. The story ends with the father's unfinished preaching. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ladislav Jakim
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Black Peter (1963)
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Pavla Novotná
Best movies:
Black Peter (1963)
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Jan Vostrčil
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
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The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Kinoautomat: One Man and His House (1967)
Vladimír Pucholt
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Black Peter (1963)
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Svatba jako řemen (1967)
Pavel Sedláček
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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Zdeněk Kulhánek
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František Kosina
Best movies:
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Josef Koza
Czechoslovakia
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Božena Matušková
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Antonín Pokorný
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Jaroslav Kladrubský
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Františka Skálová
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Jaroslava Rážová
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Majka Gillarová
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Susan Kodicek
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Jaroslav Bendl
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František Pražák
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Dana Urbánková
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Josef Abrhám
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