
26/03/1982
Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film, which was directed in 1981 by the experienced family filmmaker Václav Gajer. The story takes place in 1947 and it is based on the popular model of the relationship between a human hero and an indomitable animal protagonist. The tale of the freedom necessary for life, is, of course, beholden to the standards of the time: the Hucul horse that heals an old villager, has remained in the small village in Šumava after the Soviet soldiers have left. This is a pleasing movie that engages with the acting performance of Zdeněk Řehoř and the depiction of the indisputable beauty of the Šumava landscape as shot by cameraman Jan Němeček.

Zdeněk Řehoř
as Antonín Jakub

Miloš Nedbal
as Bratranec

Bedřich Prokoš
as

Miloslav Štibich
as

Jan Faltýnek
as

Jaroslava Tichá
as

Karolina Slunéčková
as

Veronika Gajerová
as

Jiří Hálek
as

Jiří Kostka
as

Otto Lackovič
as

Martina Králová
as

Pavel Zajíc
as

Miloslav Pelikán
as

Jan Skopeček
as

Ladislav Potměšil
as

Václav Kovařík
as

Stanislav Štícha
as Coachman

Tomáš Vacek
as

Vítězslav Jandák
as Narrator (voice) / Coachman (voice)
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