Academy Awards, USA 1967
| Nominee Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film Czechoslovakia. |
Filmexport (Czechoslovakia)
Directed by Milos Forman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
A teenage shoe factory worker in a bleak Czechoslovakian town attends a dance organized by her company with the members of a re-located military outfit. Unfortunately for the girls, the outfit consists mainly of middle-aged, married men. So instead she hooks up with the piano player in the band and the spend an awkward night together. He leaves the next day, but after a morality speech at the factory she heads to Prague to see him again. Instead she finds his bewildered parents at home in the middle of the night. They reluctantly let her sleep on the couch and force their son to sleep in bed with them. More hilarity follows, but the girl eventually realizes she is not wanted by any of them and goes back to work in the factory. Influential Czech New Wave film has lost a lot of punch today. There are some jabs at the mundane, lonely life under repressive Communist rule, but most of the film is just a run-of-the-mill sex comedy.
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