Love Is Smell of Resin

Vlado Müller himself valued his humanly mature performance in this psychological drama by director Jiří Hanibal, who based the film on his book Když pláče les (When the Forest Weeps). In 1984, the actor was only 48 years-old, but he nevertheless managed to grasp the part of a roughly 60-year-old lumberjack with a heart of gold and the significant name of Franta Hrubý (Frank Coarse). The maverick forestry worker arrogates the right to always be right. He thus falls into conflict with his beloved teenage granddaughter Jana (Mahulena Bočanová), eager-to-marry girlfriend (Věra Galatíková) and his estranged daughter (Libuše Geprtová). Noteworthy is that the then 24-year-old Marek Vašut, who took the role of Jana’s friend, also played his part in the successful acting. The narrative atmosphere is based on North Bohemian forest exteriors, in which the drama of the implacable Franta takes on a new authenticity.