The girl and the black stallion
| Movie | |
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| German title | The girl and the black stallion |
| Original title | Trápení |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Karel Kachyňa |
| script | Karel Kachyňa Jan Procházka |
| music | Jan Novák |
| camera | Josef Illík |
| cut | Jan Chaloupek |
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The girl and the black stallion , original title Trápení , is a Czechoslovakian film by Karel Kachyňa from 1962 with Jorga Kotrbová and Rudolf Průcha in the leading roles. In his home country, the film was released for the first time on February 16, 1962, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on October 30, 1964. There the film was sometimes also called Junge Leid .
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12-year-old Lenka lives with her parents in a Bohemian village. Because she no longer has any contact with the smaller girls and their games, Lenka prefers to hang around with a bunch of boys. Most of all, she feels drawn to the proud and unbridled wild stallion Primek. Full of bitterness and secret anger, she repeatedly watches how the horse is mistreated by its caretakers. It becomes shy, and soon no one except Lenka dares to go near it.
Lenka's parents are not exactly happy about their daughter's development and decide to give her to an aunt in Prague for a while. Out of pity for the sick stallion and out of fear that he could be taken away, Lenka kidnaps the horse from the stable at night in order to look after it. When you start looking for her, she escapes with Primek. You won't find her again until the next morning. With her actions she has shown not only to herself, but also to her environment that she is willing and able to take responsibility and to go her own way. With this action she finally breaks away from the phase of childhood. The trip to Prague has become unnecessary and Primek is allowed to stay alive.
Production notes
The outdoor shots were made in South Bohemia, the indoor shots in the Barrandov Studios in Prague . Karel Postřehovský created the costumes. The renowned composer Jan Novák contributed the music.
criticism
"A worth seeing youth film from the CSSR with impressive exterior shots from South Bohemia."
“Formally well-designed Czech film that, in addition to its clearly structured story, provides an insight into the developmental psychological problems of a young person. Suitable for children and adults alike and warmly recommended from around 10 upwards. "
Awards
- Best of the month of the Evangelical Film Guild
- Predicate particularly valuable , Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden
Web links
- The girl and black stallion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- About the film in ZEIT ONLINE KULTUR
- SPIEGEL short review
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 105/1965, pp. 200 to 201.
- ↑ a b Lexicon of International Films , rororo-Taschenbuch Nr. 6322 (1988), p. 1917 (title there: "Junge Leid")