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Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Laundryboy (1960)
The film tells the story of a small Czech boy, František Bureš, freed by the Soviet Army from a Nazi concentration camp, who ends up fighting with Czechoslovak soldiers at the Dukla Pass. The soldiers from the field laundry he's assigned to love him. But Práče – nicknamed after the smallest of Hussite fighters – doesn't like it at the laundry. He tries to get into combat to prove his bravery. The soldiers then decide to teach František how to handle the gun and send him as a link to the artillery. The boy finally sees a real battlefield...
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Duration | 84 min |
| Rating | 10 |
| Directed by | Karel Kachyňa |
| Screenplay | J.A. Novotný, Karel Kachyňa |
| Director of Photography | Josef Illík |
| Music | Miloš Vacek |
| Edited by | Jan Chaloupek |
| Contact | Národní filmový archiv |
Biography
A film director and screenwriter. He was of the first of FAMU's graduates. Together with writer Jan Procházka, he made the significant films The Stress of Youth (1961), Carriage to Vienna (1966), The Nun's Night (1967), The Ear (1970), and The Cow (1993). His later films included, e.g. Fany (1995) and Hanele (1999).