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Loves of a Blonde

Milos Forman

Czech Republic

1965

82 minutes

Black and White

1.33:1

Czech

144

Synopsis

With sixteen women to each man, the odds are against Andula in her desperate search for love—that is, until a rakish piano player visits her small factory town and temporarily eases her longings. A tender and humorous look at Andula’s journey, from the first pangs of romance to its inevitable disappointments, Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky) immediately became a classic of the Czech New Wave and earned Milos Forman the first of his Academy Award nominations.

Cast

AndulaHanu Brejchovou
MildaVladimíra Pucholta
VacovskyVladimír Mensik
ManasIvan Kheil
BurdaJirí Hruby
Milda's motherMilada Jezková
Milda's fatherJosef Sebánek
PrkornyJosef Kolb
MarieMarie Salacová
JanaJana Nováková

Credits

DirectorMilos Forman
ScreenplayMilos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer and Vaclav Sasek
ProducerRudolf Hájek and Doro Vlado Hreljanovic
CinematographyMiroslav Ondrícek
EditingMiroslav Hajek
MusicEvzen Illin
CostumesZdena Snajdarová
Assistant directorIvan Passer
SoundAdolf Böhm

Disc Features

  • New digital transfer, with restored image and sound
  • Video interview with director Milos Forman
  • Deleted scene
  • New and improved English subtitle translation

From the Current

Loves of a Blonde

by Dave Kehr Feb 11, 2002

When Milos Forman’s Loves of a Blonde had its American premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1966, it was an immediate sensation. Nothing quite as fresh and apparently spontaneous had appeared on the scene since François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows...

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