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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