Summary
Director Antonín Kachlík’s 1976 nostalgic comedy is set in the 1950s in a Moravian winemaking village. Like in Václav Vorlíček’s “Wine” trilogy, made around the same time, the village seems like an idyllic place, but an ideological struggle is brewing beneath the pastoral veneer. Old countryman Josef is a seasoned winemaker whose everyday reality is interspersed with vivid memories. Unlike his son Petr (Oldřich Vykypěl), Josef realises the importance of joining the new state cooperative, just as he knows that his grandson (Svatopluk Skopal) must leave his hometown and go to medical school. Bohuš Záhorský, who was 70 at the time, stars as the 96-year-old protagonist with a passion for collectivisation.
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