The multiple Oscar winning director's autobiographical account captures an ordinary summer in a small Czech town in the early 1960's. Peter is a 16 year old supermarket assistant who must watch for shoplifters when he would rather lie by the pool and look at girls. The film expresses the feelings of a rising rebellion among the youth in the Eastern Bloc a few years before The Prague Spring.

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