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Pelisky
comedy |
£ 16.99 |
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Set in the Christmas season leading up to the ill-fated Prague Spring of 1968, this perfectly handled coming-of-age comedy sticks to two families in a small suburban apartment building. Teenage Michal Sebek (Michael Beran) has a major crush on his cool and pretty neighbor, Jindfiska Kraus (Kristyna Novakova), but they are divided by politics and more. His clan is ostensibly run by a dimwitted army officer (hilarious Miroslav Donutil) while her dad (Jifi Kodet) is an even more autocratic opponent of the communists, protected only by his status as a genuine war hero. This doesn't make him brave enough to stop his rebellious daughter from calling her mother's Czech dumplings gnocchi, causing nationalistic apoplexy in the Kraus household. Mr. Sebek, meanwhile, is convinced that the dazzling new plasticware from East Germany will finally put those decadent Americans in their place, although his son is far more concerned about that handsome hipster (Ondrej Brousek) Jindriska starts going out with.
The shaggy-haired lad plays piano, wears Beatles boots and has his own movie projector, the better to play films from Hollywood and prewar France for the neighborhood. (One even leads to Michal being taunted for his supposed resemblance to Jean Marais.)
Pelisky is superbly cast with thespians who move effortlessly from poignant family insights to outright physical comedy, including hair that's lazily set on fire and an imported Soviet "toy" that purposely tortures children.
Rating and User comments on Internet Movie Database
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| Availability: usually dispatched within 5 - 6 weeks |
| czech |
| czech, english, german, russian |
| 115 min. |
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