Loves of a Blonde (1965) Synopsis

A very funny adaptation of the "all-girls' boarding school" farce adapted to Communist Czechoslovakia in the years just preceding the Prague Spring. A director of a factory built in rural Moravia in the center of the country has a problem. His factory is staffed entirely by 18-20 year old young women but all the boys their age have been drafted and sent to the border with West Germany anticipating war with the West. This has begun to cause "morale problems" at the factory. Hat in hand, he gets a meeting with the general staff and asks for help. The generals respond that they can't spare any of the young men because "war may come." The factory director responds, "With all due respect, I appreciate your concerns but I have mine. And since it's been a while, may I ask, what if the war doesn't come? Can you do something to help me out?"Well, in a typical measured, _planned_, and regimented fashion, the generals decide to "deploy" a "reserve unit" of 40-something year old (mostly MARRIED) men to the next "factory dance." Well, the men are lost talking among themselves about how exactly they used to pick up girls "back in the day," while the young women are not exactly thrilled being asked to dance with men who are as old as their fathers. The only young man at the dance is a jazz musician from Prague who's playing in the band. The Blonde protagonist of the story decides to take things into her own hands and talks him up ...Loves of a Blonde also features possibly the single most over the top sincere/heartfelt defence of "a young woman's honor" ever portrayed in cinema given by the "comrade house mother" responsible for the girls' dorm at the factory.

A very funny adaptation of the "all-girls' boarding school" farce adapted to Communist Czechoslovakia in the years just preceding the Prague Spring. A director of a factory built in rural Moravia in the center of the country has a problem. His factory is staffed entirely by 18-20 year old young women but all the boys their age have been drafted and sent to the border with West Germany anticipating war with the West. This has begun to cause "morale problems" at the factory. Hat in hand, he gets a meeting with the general staff and asks for help. The generals respond that they can't spare any of the young men because "war may come." The factory director responds, "With all due respect, I appreciate your concerns but I have mine. And since it's been a while, may I ask, what if the war doesn't come? Can you do something to help me out?"Well, in a typical measured, _planned_, and regimented fashion, the generals decide to "deploy" a "reserve unit" of 40-something year old (mostly MARRIED) men to the next "factory dance." Well, the men are lost talking among themselves about how exactly they used to pick up girls "back in the day," while the young women are not exactly thrilled being asked to dance with men who are as old as their fathers. The only young man at the dance is a jazz musician from Prague who's playing in the band. The Blonde protagonist of the story decides to take things into her own hands and talks him up ...Loves of a Blonde also features possibly the single most over the top sincere/heartfelt defence of "a young woman's honor" ever portrayed in cinema given by the "comrade house mother" responsible for the girls' dorm at the factory.

Published Time: 2019-09-17 14:39:28