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Telltales   [Assigned Title]

ŽALOBNÍCI   [Assigned Title]
Country of Origin: Czech Republic
Year of origin: 1960
Genre: Feature Film
Locations of shooting: Lichovy, Příbramsko, Sádky, Sedlčansko

Credits
Director: Ivo Novák
Screenplay: Jan Jílek
  Ivo Novák
Production company: Filmové studio Barrandov
Music: Zdeněk Liška
Director of photography: Jan Novák


The young Eliška Janíčková is watering her mother's grave. An argument of two members of the local cooperative over a sack of groats stolen from the cowshed drives her out from the cemetery. A fragile love relationship gradually develops between Eliška and Jenda Dostál, the chairman of the local youth movement organization. The young people in their village, Pavlov, do not have a simple life. The house of culture has been under construction for two years already and there are no funds to finish it. The youngsters blame their parents as well as their fellow-citizens, members of the agricultural cooperative, for thinking only of their own prosperity. Minor thefts of cooperative property are becoming a frequent phenomenon. The boys and girls decide to make a list of dishonest practices by cooperative members and publish them. Jenda's father forces his son to delete several items from the list. Eliška's task is to count the total waste. When she finds out about Jenda giving her the incomplete list, she breaks up with him. A scandal breaks out in the village, with parents expelling their "sneaky" children from their home. The youngsters barricade themselves in the local pub, but afterwards, all the villagers get together at an improvised meeting. When Eliška announces the final amount

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