Summary
Shortly after completing children’s comedy Nefňukej, veverko! (Stop Mewling, Squirrel!, 1988) experienced director Věra Plívová-Šimková brought to the cinema the second instalment in this series of stories about the little girl Kačka Znamínková. Kačka’s deceased grandfather speaks to this girl with a strong imagination through a seashell. The shell also fulfils her various wishes and enables Kačka to travel into a fantastical world. There, the little heroine tries to deal with some of the problems that seem impossibly complex in the real world. Helena Vitovská takes the lead role in this light-hearted film. The young actress would also play another Kačenka – Mahlerová – in a pair of films from director Jindřich Polák, namely Kačenka a strašidla (Cathy and the Ghosts, 1992) and Kačenka a zase ta strašidla, (Cathy and Those Ghosts Again, 1992). Also linking these two series is the fact that Jiří Schmitzer plays the father in all four films.
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