Kluk za dvě pětky

One of the many normalization films about youth, this time about a bricklayer's apprentice, who is affected by a guidance counsellor and a first love. The clumsy teen romance was entrusted to Langmajer and Vávrová (authentic teenage actors down to the smallest detail). The boy is precocious, but his neighborhood has already labelled him and there's no turning back. Nowadays, valuable are mainly the shots of the Prague realities of that time, the underground and Wenceslas Square, fashion, and various tricks; the Rubik's Cube has become a symbol of the generation of that time. The reactions of the youth to Štursa's 1905 statue Puberty are also great. It's not amazing, but it is another piece of the puzzle on the road to understanding our past. (2021.02.15)