Summary
Children’s film director Ota Koval changes gears for this biographical drama. The life of communist icon Julius Fučík (1903–1943) is depicted via this 1979 film, which charts the life of the future political activist from childhood through high school. Growing up in a working class family, the youngster and his father fear being drafted into service for the Austro-Hungarian army, and during World War I Fučík experiences oppression and poverty first-hand. The future journalist, translator and theatrical and literary critic also becomes a star of the amateur theatre circuit. The film seeks to mine Fučík’s entire life story for evidence of his burgeoning personality and political outlook. The film stars Filip Renč as a young Fučík.
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