Summary
Following their first collaboration with Sonáta pro zrzku (Sonata for a Red-Haired Girl, 1980) director Vít Olmer once again joined forces with author and screenwriter Vojtěch Vacek to make this 1983 teenage canoeing adventure. A dispute between the older members of a Pioneer (the favoured socialist-era term for “scout”) canoeing club and a group of young Roma ends with reconciliation. But concealed beneath the veneer of this carefree holiday adventure is a drama about xenophobia and hatred, as a growing sense of danger and suspicion continues to bubble during a summertime boating trip along the river Ohře. A thief is discovered within the canoeing group, risking the entire trip. Female Pioneer Ivana then begins to fall for the leader of the Roma group, the attractive Karči (Sagvan Tofi). Tom, the leader of the Pioneers, is portrayed by Vladimír Kratina. His young charges include actors Filip Renč, Michal Suchánek, Martin Zounar, Yvetta Blanarovičová, Kateřina Brožová and Michaela Jílková.
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