Zdeněk Vinš

It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.

A silent puppet fairy tale about a prince who is supposed to find a bride. One of the potential brides is a witch who turns him into a snake after getting rejected by him.

Jakubisko’s graduation work which examines the lives of young people on the eve of their joining the army for national service.

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