Waiting For The Rain
– It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantas..
It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to get male attention.
01 Oct 1978
Czech
Karel Kachyna
Karel Cabrádek, Karel Kachyna
Jirí Bartoska, Michal Hofbauer, Monika Hálová, Dita Kaplanová
Twelve-year-old Alena (Dita Kaplanová) has had to leave the countryside on a blazing hot summer day and come back home to a block of flats on the outskirts of Prague. She spends most of the day on her own, amusing herself daydreaming and imagining, on the blazing hot building roof awaiting the rain. Her mother (Ladislava Kozderková) is at work all day and her friends are still away on holidays. Alena is keen on the actor Budil (Jirí Bartoska) and puts on her best clothes for him each day, running out onto the street carrying her mother's handbag.