Lásky mezi kapkami deště http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077883/ Director:Karel Kachyna 1979 http://www.filmweb.pl/f182796/Mi%C5%82o%C5%9B%C4%87+mi%C4%99dzy+kroplami+deszczu,1979 === Romanca o žižkovskom dievčati, dvoch bratoch, stratenom obuvníkovi a nedozretom viniči. Príbeh z pražského Žižkova tridsiatych rokov. V meste sa rozmáha veľkoobuvník Baťa a obuvník Bursík čím menej dokáže konkurovať jeho lacným produktom. Jeho dvaja synovia prežívajú obdobie, ktorému sa vraví dospievanie a každý iným spôsobom. Prvé milostné splanutia a hľadanie si miesta v živote poznamenanom sociálnou neistotou a neskôr okupáciou... Příběh je rozdělen do jednotlivých vět. Věta první: Exodus, Věta druhá: Války malé a velké, Věta třetí: Milenka v cylindru, Věta čtvrtá: Důmyslný rytíř od Židovských pecí, Věta pátá: Pomyslná zpráva o vyhnání z ráje, Věta šestá: Příběh o stydlivé láhvi. === One example of this is the film Lásky mezi kapkami deště (Love Between Rain Drops, 1979). The film is a mosaic of stories connected to the main hero, a boy Kajda (Lukáš Vaculík). Through Kajda's eyes, we see the world of adults: his sister Věra (Zlata Adamovská), who has moved away from the family and lives with rich, married men as their lover; the father (Vladimír Menšík), a shoemaker, who due to the loss of his wife and a failing business goes almost mad and starts to spend more and more time drinking; and his brother Pepan (Jan Hrušínský), the opposite of the romantic and sensitive Kajda. Kajda as the main character is also the narrator through whose eyes we see the outside world. The whole story happens against the backdrop of the build up to the Second World War. But there isn't any conflict, any exciting tension between an innocent boy and the historical time he has to live in like it as in the film Ať žije republika!. The director concentrates more on the love story between Kajda and a young girl Pája (Tereza Pokorná). This tendency to emphasis personal relationships over historical background can also be seen also in other Kachyňa's films, such are Oznamuje se láskám vašim (It's Being Announced to Your Loved Ones, 1988) or Hanele (1999). The director paraphrases the relationship of Kajda and Pája as the story of Adam and Eve. The couple finds a secret garden that's separated from the outside world and seems like a paradise compared to Žižkov, the industrial part of Prague where they both live. The garden is an island where they can hide from the world and forget for a moment their everyday reality (in Pája's case, her drunken father and many smaller siblings to take care of). In addition to the Biblical nature of the couple, Kachyňa also puts in the game a God-like figure: an old pharmacist who owns the garden, which he surveys from his high terrace with a pair of binoculars, and who benevolently lets the couple meet and play there. He also lets them eat everything from the garden—except grapes, consumption of which will lead to their expulsion, never to come back again. The old owner of the garden (who is played by Rudolf Hrušínský) trusts their love and bets on them against a friend named Devil (Miroslav Macháček), who comes to see the loving couple. But later on Pája takes Pepan to the garden, and he makes her to pick up a grape for him, which has terrible consequences: they have to leave the garden, Pája gets pregnant with Pepan and thus loses Kajda, and finally war breaks out. In this film, Kachyňa uses poetic images to recreate the atmosphere of Žižkov in the middle of the 20th century. The director works with coloring certain sequences in a particular tone. While the whole film is shot in color, the scenes presenting memories of Kajda's very early childhood are tinted yellow. This is a very common technique in Kachyňa's work, also visible in films such as Láska or Kráva. === Nostalgiczna opowieść o praskiej dziewczynie, dwóch braciach i ich ojcu szewcu, Opowieść toczy się w latach dwudziestych i trzydziestych.
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