Black Peter

Director: Miloš Forman, 1963, 86 mins, Czechoslovakia

The multiple Oscar winning director’s autobiographical account captures an ordinary summer in a small Czech town in the early 1960‘s. Peter is a 16 year old supermarket assistant who must watch for shoplifters when he would rather lie by the pool and look at girls. The film expresses the feelings of a rising rebellion among the youth in the Eastern Bloc a few years before The Prague Spring.

From the Czech Center.