Summary
In this tale of a young man who has perfectly messed up his life, the renowned director Karel Kachyňa took a humorous look at the system of “one hundred percent employment” in the socialist state. The victim of these practices is 18-year-old František Vodrážka, who after arduously graduating from university is compelled to work in a factory. After a dreary stint in the design office, the offer of a place in the laboratory appeals to him, but in the end he can’t stick with that either – much like he couldn't stick with his girlfriends Jára and Vlasta and the earlier promise of a rowing career. František, nicknamed Fandy, is thus a prototype of the internally unattached, lazy outsider, whose good heart gets him nowhere. The film’s title role was taken by the now forgotten Bohumír Starý, while Dana Medřická bid farewell to her professional career in the role of Fandy’s mother.
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