Pink Dreams
d. Dušan Hanák, Czechoslovakia, 1976, colour, 80 min.
An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the wild imagination of the village postman and its clash with the pragmatic mundane reality that finally beats the rosy dreams of the young protagonists. Director Dušan Hanák and screenwriter Dušan Dušek´s most popular film has been cherished by critics as well as wide audiences at home and abroad.
Synopsis
The Prime of Life (1967)
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, realizes that his life is passing without purpose. It is time for him to choose between two women, the city and the country, and creative work and practical craft. While he feels passionate about art, he knows he also has to earn a living.
Birdies, Orphans and Fools (1969)
Although this mosaic-like parable is set in an undefined space and time, the insane world which it depicts, a world without ideals, filled with violence, cynicism and hopelessness, strongly resembles the social atmosphere in Czechoslovakia after August 1968.
Sitting on a Branch I am Fine (1989)
This story of two inseparable friends – circus comedian Pepe and soldier Prengel – takes place shortly after the end of WW II. When their fates are intertwined by the discovery of hidden gold and the arrival of a Jewish girl, Esther, the three of them together start their search for happiness.
The Prime of Life (1967)
Birdies, Orphans and Fools (1969)
Sitting on a Branch I am Fine (1989)
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