Czechoslovakia,
1960, 83 min
Directed by:
Karel KachyňaCinematography:
Josef IllíkComposer:
Miloš VacekCast:
Michal Koblic, Marie Magdolenová, Vladimír Hlavatý, Gustáv Valach, Vladimír Menšík, Oldřich Musil, Martin Ťapák, Stanislav Remunda, Miloslav Holub (more)Plots(1)
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... (Zlín Film Festival)
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![Laundryboy - Photos - Vladimír Hlavatý, Gustáv Valach, Martin Ťapák, Michal Koblic, Oldřich Musil](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w663/files/images/film/photos/000/177/177507_63a4c9.jpg)