Holiday with Minka

Josef Pinkava, 1962

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Summary

In the early 1960s, director Josef Pinkava was one of the filmmakers who contributed to the flowering of domestic film for children and youth. One of Pinkava's first successful films was the summer adventure of a group of village children who go on holiday to a mountain village. The children help herd the cows and experience all sorts of small incidents, but the small community is held together mainly thanks to a spotted horse named Minka. The group is led by the sensible Vlasta (non-actress Veronika Štefanová), but problems in the collective grow because of the son of the chairman of the agricultural cooperative, Jirka. He is played by Luboš Petřík, who Pinkava had previously cast in the medium-length children's film Who Owns the Cup? Songs by Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr give the film a contemporary progressive swing. The film won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix Pelayo at the 1964 Gijón IFF.
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About a film

Production year 1962
Countries Czechoslovakia
Categories film
Genres children
Form feature
Duration 85 min
Director Josef Pinkava
Cast Veronika Štefanová, Luboš Petřík, Petr Sobotka, Luděk Panáček, Pavel Bolek, František Očadlík
Director of photography Jiří Kolín
Screenplay Jiří Blažek, Josef Pinkava
Editor Antonín Štrojsa
Production designer Jaroslav Krška
Music Vlastimil Hála
Sound designer František Strangmüller, Bohumír Brunclík