Summary
Soviet director Lev Golub shot the children’s film Puščik jede do Prahy (Pushchik Goes to Prague) about the friendship between Russian and Czech “pioneers” (socialist youth scouts) in the seminal year of 1968. Another co-production in Golub’s filmography is the war drama Borisek malý seržant (Little Boris, a Sergeant, 1975). Its story centres on an orphaned boy who attains the rank of junior sergeant in the medical corps. Borisek, whose family has been massacred by the White Army, himself faces death whilst caring for wounded soldiers. One day, he takes it upon himself to inform the mother of a Czech soldier named Lukáš of her son’s death. He spends three days in the Czech lands, where he enjoys the feeling of living a normal childhood, as he was anticipating. Then, however, he returns to the front… The title role is played by the only non-professional actor in the cast, Valentin Klimenkov. The part of Lukáš’s mother is portrayed by Vlasta Vlasáková.
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