Director Filip Renč started out as a successful child actor. By 1976, at the tender age of thirteen years old, he already had a presentable filmography, but the year was to see him add to it with the title role in a psychological family film from directors Ota Koval and Jaroslava Vošmiková (who was making her bow as a director). Renč’s Jakub is a sensitive boy on the threshold of adulthood. After spending years in a children’s home, he starts to live with his long-missing father. But his dreams of having a loving pa are confronted by a crude reality: Mikuláš Adam has after many years emerged from a prison sentence in Africa and hasn’t the least idea of how to bring up a child. Mother has no interest in the boy, who thus has no choice but to embark on a personal journey to try and find a way through to his dad... Besides Renč, the motion picture's stars are Ladislav Mrkvička (the father) and Věra Galatíková (Jakub’s school teacher). Jan Potměšil acts in his first film, playing the minor role of classmate Saša.
Eleven year old Jakub differs from his contemporaries, he has a wild fantasy and imagination. He concluded from the letter of his mother that his father works on an important construction site in Africa and therefore he put him for some time in a children's home. The peculiar Jakub awakes respect among his friends and from time to time they like to smoke a hashish joint together which Jakub gets allegedly from his father. After six years Jakub finally meets his father who takes him to Prague. Jakub is happy although the reality is different than his dreams about his father arrival. The flat his father got is quite dilapidated, they don't have a car and it seems his father keeps some secret. But Jakub can settle with problems. He finds friends -boys and girls at school and in the neighbourhood, they await his inventive games. One day Jakub makes a"hash party". Besides Jakub, everybody feels sick. Parents complain about the boy a lot and in this situation comes out that Jakub's father spent six years in prison instead of in Africa. The heart-broken Jakub runs away first to his mother. But she has her own life now and therefore he goes back to the children's home. Before the entrance of the home his father is waiting. As they look at each other a long time, they realize that they both need each other and they have to find again a mutual trust.
Jakub Adam, chovanec dětského domova
vězeň Mikuláš Adam, Jakubův otec
soused Hladík
třídní učitelka
ředitelka školy
ředitelka dětského domova
Dana, děvče ze sousedství
Renáta, děvče ze sousedství
spolužačka Jiřina
spolužák Mirek
spolužák Ota
spolužák Tomek
spolužák Saša
spolužák Ivan
spolužák Franta
spolužák Jirka
dělník
stěhovák
stěhovák
Mára, chovanec dětského domova
Karolina, chovanka dětského domova
Jakubova matka
příslušník VB
příslušník VB
hudební skupina na parníku
kamelot
dívka tančící na parníku
Sašův bratr
dívka Sašova bratra
mistr na stavbě metra
bagrista
dispečer
dispečer
hlas otce
Žofie Futerová
Jaroslav Česal, Karel Kočí, Stanislav Krejča
Lenka Mojžíšová (klapka), Ivan Minář (fotograf)
Nora Grumlíková, FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)
Eva Olmerová, skupina Schovanky
Song Composer Jaroslav Ježek
Jakub
Jakub
Jakub
film
featuretheatrical distribution
psychological
Czechoslovakia
1976
1976
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1986
premiere 11 March 1977 /suitable for youths/
Dramaturgická skupina Oty Hofmana, Ota Hofman (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
feature film
77 min
2 030 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Exhibition: 7. mezinárodní filmové dny Kartágo
1978
Kartágo / Tunisia
Festival: 15. festival českých a slovenských filmů Bratislava
1977
Bratislava / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 17. festival filmů pro děti Gottwaldov
1977
Zlín / Czechoslovakia
Exhibition: 9. národní přehlídka filmů pro děti Ostrov nad Ohří
1977
Ostrov nad Ohří / Czechoslovakia
Filip Renč
Festival: 12. mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež Teherán
1977
Teherán / Iran
Filip Renč
Festival: 17. festival filmů pro děti Gottwaldov
1977
Zlín / Czechoslovakia
Filip Renč
Festival: 12. mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež Teherán
1977
Teherán / Iran
Festival: 17. festival filmů pro děti Gottwaldov
1977
Zlín / Czechoslovakia