Vracenky

Czech films that have been somewhat forgotten...

directed by Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia 1990, 90 min.

Of course, criticism of the political processes of the 1950s was not allowed to be heard in the cinematography of the 1970s and 1980s. However, immediately after the fall of the regime, screenwriter Milan Ležák and director Jan Schmidt took up the topic. Vracenka evoked the time in black and white format and the story of a ten-year-old hero whose divorced mother is a staunch communist. Honzík Domnosil has problems at school and at home, where his mother is constantly fighting with his lover František because of his "reactionary" views. However, when political processes begin that the boy's mother cannot agree with, the woman who has been so zealous ends up in prison... The director carefully builds the increasingly dark atmosphere of the little hero's world, which is disturbed by the rapidly changing times: private shops disappear from the streets, a monument to Stalin is erected on Letná, and the idea of ​​a peaceful home becomes a mere dream that neither Lenin nor God can materialize for Honzík.

Introduction film ciritic Jan Lukeš

In Czech language only.