Summary
Village children are spending their summer holidays with relatives living on a Prague housing estate. Since both aunt and uncle go to work every day, siblings Adam and Otka enjoy their own adventures with friends as well as enemies. This children’s film from 1973 evokes the specific sunny summer holiday atmosphere amid a “socialist-realist” block of flats. The contrast to the “true” lifestyle of the small protagonists and their relatives comes in the shape of watchmaker Vencl who – graciously delivered by experienced Vlastimil Brodský – even enables the children to “travel in time”. This provides a prelude to the children’s dad winning the World Ploughing Championship. However, Vencl is also a character with a distinct stick-in-the-mud disposition. The film, inspired by a children’s book by Bohumil Říha – as well as by the housing estates development programme – is also notable for its unorthodox soundtrack created by proven composer Zdeněk Liška.
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