Summary
Venca is a bricklayer, yet he introduces himself as an undergraduate to Pavla, a pretty student at the construction faculty. The minor deception is discovered – but that doesn’t stop the young people from growing close. For the girl’s parents, however, Venca’s social status is, at first, unacceptable. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that the young man's parents, conventional types devoted to building the family villa, also don’t accept the young love... The director of this 1981 satire on the contemporary petit bourgeois, adorned with songs by Jiří Bažant and Jiří Malásek, is Ladislav Rychman. However, Láska na druhý pohled (Love at Second Sight) rather trails the testimony to a generation offered by his Starci na chmelu (Hop-Pickers, 1965). Ilona Svobodová and Jan Čenský debuted in the main roles, but the experienced director entrusted the parts of the parents to tried and tested acting old hands – Míla Myslíková, Josef Větrovec, Rudolf Jelínek and Marie Málková.
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