Summary
Former assistant director Stanislav Černý marks his directorial debut at the age of 48 with the feature film drama Černý vlk (The Black Wolf, 1971). The film tells the story of the defenders of the frontiers of communist-era Czechoslovakia, ably assisted by their four-legged companions. The title star is a German Shepherd dog, who crosses over the border into the West down in the South Bohemian Šumava region, along with a human illegal border crosser, a charming female agent named Inga. The woman is dutifully shot, but the orphaned dog is taken into the care of rugged lumberjack Franěk (František Peterka), who knew the agent from his time in the circus. The man decides to take his revenge against the border guards who killed his friend. But the Black Wolf has his reasons for loathing Franěk – the lumberjack killed a puppy the dog fathered with his mate, a female border guard dog named Líza… The film was made to mark the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Pohraniční stráž (PS) border defence division.
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