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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.
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.
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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Milos Forman
- 1964-04-17
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.
- (3K)
- Filmové Studio Barrandov
- Miloš Forman
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.
Forman’s transgressive debut fiction feature offers a funny, imaginative look at youthful malaise and generational conflict. Chosen to play in the official competition at the 1964 Locarno Film Festival, where it won the grand prize,