She Kept Asking for the Moon

She Kept Asking for the Moon

81 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Dec. 22, 1982

Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. 18 years later her (now 18-year-old) daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.

She Kept Asking for the Moon

81 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Dec. 22, 1982

She Kept Asking for the Moon
Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. 18 years later her (now 18-year-old) daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Slovenská filmová tvorba Koliba (SFT)
Original title Pásla kone na betóne
Directors Štefan Uher
Writers Milka Zimková, Štefan Uher

Cast

Milka Zimková

as Johana Ovsená

Veronika Jeníková

as Pavla 'Pavlínka' Ovsená

Marie Logojdová

as Jozefka

Tamara Simková

as Margita

Nora Kuželová

as Katarína

Peter Staník

as Berty

Ľubomír Paulovič

as Štefan

Jiří Klepl

as Učiteľ

Mikulás Las

as Micha

Peter Vons

as Studniar