
This Is How Love Begins...
1975-10-31 · 95 min · ★ 5.0
Two hilarious short stories set in the milieu of apprentice youth, depicting the amorous travails of teenage boys. In the first story, "The Sorrows of the Devil's Apprentice", we see a talkative storekeeper who is constantly advising his charges on how they should behave, unaware that one of the young men has fallen in love with his daughter. Overcoming shyness is also depicted in the second of the stories, entitled "May I Beg, Helen?"
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- Directors
- Hynek Bočan
- Production companies
- Filmové studio Barrandov
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Status
- Released
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Lenka Kořínková
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová
Vlastimil Brodský
Vladimír Menšík
Jana Hlaváčová
Martin Stropnický
Karolina Slunéčková
Václav Babka
Alena Kreuzmannová
Jan Faltýnek
Stella Zázvorková
František Němec
Jan Skopeček
Jiří Lír
Dana Hlaváčová
Milan Neděla
Mirko Musil
Vlastimil Bedrna
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