Summary
Exotic Bulgarian locales play an important role in this 1975 co-production directed by Jan Schmidt. Based on a retelling of a Bulgarian fairytale by writer Marie Voříšková, it tells the story of Pišta, a young gipsy who is supposed to get married, but refuses to wed any of the girls in his home village. He sets out to find the girl Orina (Bulgarian actress Elena Dimitrova), known to him from stories told by his grandfather. He finds out that Orina has been placed under a spell, and turned into a black hen. To free her, he has to marry her... The director’s other films include the post-apocalyptic drama Konec srpna v hotelu Ozon (The End of August at the Ozone Hotel, 1966), the famous 1977 “prehistoric trilogy” (Volání rodu – Indivisible Clan, Na Veliké řece – On the Big River, Osada havranů – The Ravens' Stronghold), as well as another children’s story, Jak si zasloužit princeznu (How to Earn a Princess, 1994).
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