Summary
Jaroslav Pinkava initially made documentaries and animated films, but in the early 1960s he started adding fictional motion pictures to his filmography. He mostly specialised in films for children and young people, but Kočky neberem (We Don’t Give Chicks a Lift, 1966) goes down as one of his few exceptions. The main protagonists of this comedy are three youths – Eman, Oskar and Milda – who travel in an old Walter car nicknamed Kleopatra to the shores of the Orlík Dam on the river Vltava. There, they spend several days camping with a tent. Given that a fourth pal has “betrayed” them by getting married, they take apprentice gardener Píďa along in his place. The ostentatious lack of interest in the fairer sex demonstrated by the bowler-hatted brotherhood is confronted with the presence of a band of “revengeful” girls in the locality and Milda’s secret feelings for a certain Olina… This somewhat neglected film breathes an atmosphere of holiday freedom. It can pride itself on the early-career acting performance given by Jiří Štěpnička (Milda). The crowd of chateau visitors seen in the film includes the then 17-year-old Boleslav Polívka.
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