The meaning of life is life itself. A very funny collection of stories from the history of immigrants from Western Ukraine who settled in Prague. The main character is a teenage girl Olga Khakundekova. It is through her eyes that we look at the fun family mess.
Numerous Ukrainian relatives constantly come to Khakundekov in the hope of a successful marriage or at least jeans. To provoke pity, they constantly tell chilling stories from a small homeland, filled with black humor. The father of the family can not understand why he signs an invitation to one person, and comes a whole camp.
Olga grows up, diligently avoiding the ideological traps of her time. But it still gets in. The policeman will call a “cop” and then fly out of the institute for the fact that her uncle is a former Ukrainian nationalist. By the way, the scriptwriter, Czech writer Galina Pavlovskaya is really the niece of Stepan Klochurak, Transcarpathian public and political figure, President of the Hutsul Republic.
The main character grows up, and while her friends are looking for the meaning of life in happiness (in their understanding), work and love, Olga tries to simply live without joining any national, religious, political and even creative groups.
Good movie. In 1995, the film received a silver St. George at the Moscow Film Festival. I am sure that today it would not have been at the festival because of the policy, from which you can not hide even in the mushroom forest.
8 out of 10