Summary
The screenwriter, assistant director, pedagogue and film journalist Zdeněk Zaoral (1945–1996) made his debut as the director of Pavučina (The Cobweb, 1986) – a bold feature dealing with the topic of drug addiction. Two years later, he created a drama starring co-screenwriter Ondřej Pavelka. In Poutníci (Pilgrims), Pavelka plays the part of ambitious intellectual Pavel, a freshly graduated movie director who, accompanied by friends, sets out upon a journey that follows in the footsteps of Karel Hynek Mácha. The group of young people decide to perform their experimental staging of Máj (archaic Czech for “May”) at South Bohemian holiday resorts. But it seems that the tragic events presented in Mácha’s poem are casting a dark cloud over relationships among members of the amateur ensemble, tainted both by Pavel’s arrogance and his romantic pursuits… Apart from Pavelka, Eva Salzmanová, Petra Lustigová and Alena Mihulová star in this feature.
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