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Black Peter (original Czech title: Černý Petr, known also as Peter and Paula) is a 1964 film directed by Miloš Forman. It won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
Black Peter: Directed by Milos Forman. With Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil, Bozena Matuskova. Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czech teenager when he starts work.
- (3.1K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Milos Forman
- 1964-04-17
The film “Black Peter” presents a sequence of seemingly insignificant events in the life of a 16 year old supermarket trainee named Peter. When Peter begins his summer job as a shop assistant, he learns that his main duty is to look out for shoplifters.
Miloš Forman's feature directorial debut, Black Peter is a coming of age film to watch through half-covered eyes, so effective is its darkly good-humored depiction of the awkwardness of being 16. The titular character, a nearly silent only child who lives uncomfortably with his attentive parents, at first seems sullen and distant.
- (2.9K)
- Filmové Studio Barrandov
- Miloš Forman
In Czechoslovakia in 1963, an aimless youth named Petr (Ladislav Jakim) begins his first job as a security guard in a busy self-service supermarket; unfortunately, he's so shy that even when he...
- Drama
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Czech director Milos Forman won first prize at the Locarno film festival for his first feature film, Black Peter. This coming-of-age story about a shy teenager who falls in love, bears the heavy influence of Francois Truffaut, as do most other "new wave" productions of the era.
