Summary
In 1977, director Ivo Novák returned to the era of the early 1960s to tell the story of a group of young lovers of Dixieland music who try to illegally leave Czechoslovakia. Seventeen-year-old Honza and his friend Ivoš decide to cross the border into Poland and from there seek freedom across the ocean. Planning such an ill-advised trip is far more important than the execution, which ends in semi-farcical failure. Honza then realises everything he would have to sacrifice back home by fleeing abroad... This film, written by Jan Fleischer, can chiefly boast of quality acting performances. The troubled Honza is portrayed by Vladimír Dlouhý, while Oldřich Kaiser delivers a compelling performance as friend Ivoš.
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