Black Peter
Starring: Ladislav Jakim; Pavla Martinkova & Jan Vostrcil Director: Milos Forman

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DVD Features:

Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33

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Interviews - Milos Forman - Director

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Milos Forman's 1963 debut BLACK PETER presages the Czech director's lifelong thematic obsession with precocious, disgruntled outsiders waging war against social conformity and authoritarianism (ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, AMADEUS, THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT). This time the protagonist is Petr (Ladislav Jakim), a sullen Czech teenager seeking solace in the dancehalls of Bohemia after being forced by his overbearing father (Jan Vostrcil) to take a demeaning job spying on potential shoplifters at a grocery store. Both a darkly comic observation of adolescence and a subtle allegory of Communism's intrusive politics, this influential film ushered in a Czech New Wave that flourished until the Soviet invasion forced Forman and other dissident intellectuals into exile.

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Cast and Crew:

Starring		Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova & Jan Vostrcil
Directed by		Milos Forman
Produced by		Rudolf Hajek
Edited by		Miroslav Hajek
Screenwriting by		Milos Forman
Composition by		Jiri Slitr
Director of Photography		Jan Nemecek
Production Design by		Karel Cerny
Story by		Jaroslav Papousek
Performer		Vladimir Pucholt, Pavel Sedlacek & Zdenek Kulhanek

DVD Details:

Label: Facets
Originally Released in: 1963
Number of Discs: 1
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
Video: Black & White
Release Date: August 17, 2004
OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 83,377
Item UPC: 736899083328
Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 1 item(s) for International Shipping.

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