Blonde in Love, A

Synopsis: Life in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s wasn’t much fun; and life in Zruc, a provincial town, was particularly bleak. There were 20,000 factory girls and not enough boys to go round. The factory’s social director imports a busload of soldiers but they turn out to be unattractive, middle-aged reservists. The soulless dance hall where they all meet is utterly unromantic. A young girl loses her virginity with a young pianist. Naively she thinks he will be pleased to see her when she turns up unannounced at his parent’s home in Prague.
Extras include part two of an archival film-by-film interview with Milo Forman, newly edited for this release with never-before-seen footage; a specially recorded Projection Booth commentary with Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kevin Heffernan, and a 24-page booklet featuring writing on the film by film historian Michael Brooke.
Czech with English subtitles.
Language: Czech
Country: Czechoslovakia
Year of production: 1965
Subjects: Social Studies; Film studies
Keywords: communism; 1960s

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