The etude is an adaptation of a section of a novel in which the Soviet pedagogue describes the establishment of camps for deprived youth in the period between the two World Wars. The illiterate wards of these institutions, often with a criminal past, learn to read and write here and can even train in a handicraft. Věra, Kuzma and Matvey have fully adapted and give the hostile and lazy ward Perec a talking-to. Matvey would like to learn how to make shoes from him. He would like to present one pair to the camp's patron, the writer Maxim Gorky.
Anton Semjonovič Makarenko (Začínáme žít – román)
Začínáme žít
Začínáme žít
Getting a Life
film
featurenon-theatrical distributionstudent film
étude
Czechoslovakia
1952
1952
short film
8 min
217 meters
35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
