Overview
Elementary school student Jožka has a great love – horses. He is looking forward to turning this love into a profession. However, he is atoning for his father's criminal activities, he is not accepted into his dream school focused on horse breeding due to a bad report and has to be content with learning to be a tractor driver. However, he continues to do his best for horses, he trains the racehorse Palisander, who has never won. His outsider fate is similar to his. However, Jožka wins everything there is to win despite various ups and downs – he stands up to bullying in the youth home, an arrogant tutor, human weaklings, manages to study well even at a school that he doesn't enjoy and does sports. He also gains the respect of his classmates. Real jockeys also star in the film. It also features the birth and death of a horse. The scene where Jožka's father saves a horse from a burning truck is dramatic. The scenes with carrier pigeons are touching.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 1, 1987
- Original language
- Czech
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Filmové studio Gottwaldov
- Cast
- Josef Culek,Václav Kolečko,Jan Přeučil,Robert Panc,Pavel Dias,Jan Teplý,Petr Pospíchal,Milan Sandhaus,Alois Švehlík,Jiří Wohankaand 18 more
- Director
- Zdenek Sirový
- Writer
- Jiří Křižan
- Cinematography
- Jiří Kolín
- Music
- Ondřej Soukup
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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