Das Mädchen und der schwarze Hengst (1962)

Das Mädchen und der schwarze Hengst: Directed by Karel Kachyna. With Jorga Kotrbová, Rudolf Prucha, Milan Jedlicka, Zora Jiráková. Adults who have long ago lost their link to nature fail to understand the feelings a growing 12 year old country girl has for a beautiful black stallion.

“You will meet a tall, dark stranger, many an adolescent girl is told. Few gypsies will mention that it will be a black horse, a wild one that has been badly mistreated, like the one Jorga Kotrbová finds and tames through kindness.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ethereu0026#39;s nothing obviously subversive about Karel Kachynau0026#39;s film, released six years before Prague Spring. In fact, it could be construed as an attack on the hardhearted peasants who donu0026#39;t understand the loving principles of socialism, allied with the dull, workaday lack of understanding that socialism proceeds from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. I donu0026#39;t read its subtext that way. The effects of socialism were made for the Czechsu0026#39; tendency for satire, and there are few pleasures like telling a joke that flies over the head of the censors. the people in charge of the community donu0026#39;t understand what Miss Kotrbová is going through. Itu0026#39;s irrelevant to them.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStill, the thing about good art is that it is open to many interpretations. I like mine.”