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.
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A screen adaptation of drama The Shepherd’s Wife by Ivan Stodola, capturing the hard life of Slovak emigrants in the times of political and social oppression before the beginning of World War I. Young shepherd Ondrej Muranica flees the tyranny of Hungarian landowners to far away America. But a mining accident destroys his dreams and hopes of a better and fairer life. Ondrej suffers from amnesia and back home, he is pronounced dead. When he returns to his homeland years later, he learns that his wife had married his best friend.
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