Five Girls Around the Neck

Five Girls Around the Neck

88 mins | Drama | Oct. 27, 1967

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm examined a girl's problems of being giving too much. She tries to buy the goodwill of her less fortunate friends; her intentions are pure, but in the difficulty of communicating she learns envy and deceit, and must decide if she will submit to double dealing or steel her life against self-deception and mediocrity. In addition to the relationship between the girl and her friends, Schorm introduces a teenage romance and the broader relationship between the girl's parents - neatly tied together with segments of Weber's opera "Der Freischütz". He reveals himself as a skilled psychological director with a wide range of knowledge about people.

Five Girls Around the Neck

88 mins | Drama | Oct. 27, 1967

Five Girls Around the Neck
Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm examined a girl's problems of being giving too much. She tries to buy the goodwill of her less fortunate friends; her intentions are pure, but in the difficulty of communicating she learns envy and deceit, and must decide if she will submit to double dealing or steel her life against self-deception and mediocrity. In addition to the relationship between the girl and her friends, Schorm introduces a teenage romance and the broader relationship between the girl's parents - neatly tied together with segments of Weber's opera "Der Freischütz". He reveals himself as a skilled psychological director with a wide range of knowledge about people.
Producers Filmové studio Barrandov
Original title Pět holek na krku
Directors Jana Rozbrojová, Anna Lackovičová, Jiří Růžička, Evald Schorm
Writers Iva Hercíková, Jan Procházka, Evald Schorm

Cast

Lucie Žulová

as Jana

Dana Matějková

as Jirina

Martin Vedral

as Petr

Leoš Suchařípa

as Otec Nataši