Summary
In 1955, director Jiří Weiss added this children’s tale to his thematically varied filmography. The screenplay by then budding children’s story writer Ota Hofman – based on his own story – presents the protagonist as third grade schoolboy Toník Burda (Aleš Košnar), who tries to improve his image in the eye of his friends with a stray fox terrier. The cute dog, which the boy calls Punťa, helps to gradually embroil our young protagonist in a web of lies – the only possible way out is to tell the truth. For this tale of morals, director Weiss offered 12-year-old Václav Postránecký his first major acting role, while also taking on the year older Vladimír Pucholt. Košnar continued to occasionally appear on screen right until the late 1970s. Forty-three-year-old Nataša Gollová also appears. She only turned up sporadically on screen during the 1950s in her otherwise expansive career.
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