Film programme 2020

Krakonos and the Skiers (1981)

Section: Old Time Cinema

Directed by: Věra Plívová-Šimková

Czechoslovakia, 1981, 72 min

Projection place: The Old Time Cinema

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This fabulous story about a mountain community is based on the rumors and fairy tales of this region and draws on the origins of these stories the hard life of the people of the Giant Mountains. Something new arrived to these mountains at the start of the 1900s - skiing. And skiing is at the heart of this story whose main heroes are two little boys and their friend, a famous smuggler with all the qualities of the Lord of the Giant Mountains from fairy tales