Summary
Even by the 1970s there was no let up in the appetite for film narratives set in a sports environment and targeted at young audiences. This motion picture, directed by Vladimír Borek, was yet another addition to the genre. The lead character, 15-year-old Honza Kánský, is in training with a swimming group. He dreams about participating in the national championships, and he sacrifices all his free time to achieve that goal. But when he fails to make it, and decides that he is not receiving the right level of support from his coach, he opts to quit swimming altogether. To him, achieving success is clearly more valuable than the atmosphere of comradeship provided by a sporting competition. It is eventually thanks to his friends within the swimming group that he eventually sees the error of his ways... The lead role in this summer holiday family film is played by non-actor Miroslav Tomášek. More noteworthy are the actors who perform the parts of two negative characters in supporting roles: the little rascal stealing change is that reliable impersonator of teenage scoundrels Jan Kraus, while the banned singer-songwriter Vlastimil Třešňák is here seen as a thief.
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