Summary
Together with Journey into the Cesta do hlubin študákovy duše (Journey into the Depth of the Student's Soul, 1939), this comedy from the proven director Martin Frič is one of two ageless films that still win over audiences thanks to their intelligent humour. In a story inspired by the humourist Jaroslav Žák’s musical comedy and sketches of the same name, gymnasts get into trouble because of their humorous class magazine Řev septimy (The Roar of the Seventh). If the author of a text ridiculing the teaching staff does not own up, the seventh-year students face being banned from participating in an eagerly anticipated high-school sports tournament. The students, however, have no idea who wrote the scathingly ironic article… Perfect casting also contributed to this film’s popularity and it does not matter that Ladislav Pešek, who played the student Čuřil, was 32 when the film was made František Filipovský (who played the swot Krhounek) was just a year younger.
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