Summary
Director Filip Renč started out as a successful child actor. By 1976, at the tender age of thirteen years old, he already had a presentable filmography, but the year was to see him add to it with the title role in a psychological family film from directors Ota Koval and Jaroslava Vošmiková (who was making her bow as a director). Renč’s Jakub is a sensitive boy on the threshold of adulthood. After spending years in a children’s home, he starts to live with his long-missing father. But his dreams of having a loving pa are confronted by a crude reality: Mikuláš Adam has after many years emerged from a prison sentence in Africa and hasn’t the least idea of how to bring up a child. Mother has no interest in the boy, who thus has no choice but to embark on a personal journey to try and find a way through to his dad... Besides Renč, the motion picture's stars are Ladislav Mrkvička (the father) and Věra Galatíková (Jakub’s school teacher). Jan Potměšil acts in his first film, playing the minor role of classmate Saša.
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