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The peak of the series in terms of characters, dialogues, and ideas. Mireček, Vendulka, the sector development of the workspace, and Pavel Kříž in top form. If there is any Czech film that feels like real life, it's this one. (19.04.2006)

In elementary school, I was under the impression that when I went to college, I would experience something similar to this film. Although Dziga Vertov is also my bread and butter, my reality after thirty years is somewhat different from the poetic version. In this film, however, Pecháček provided a picture of higher education in Czechoslovakia like no other and as such he receives the order of Fellini and Antonioni, whose conception of sex is indeed diametrically opposed. A quack or a medic, they all have the same diagnosis. Only the sexy Casanova, played by Jiří Štěpnička, remained de facto fictional. "Bronstein reduced the redundant number of textbooks from three stacks to two." (17.02.2009)

I don't know why, but the second movie didn't captivate me as much as the first one. Maybe it's just because it's still about some unhappy love, it's always the same. The Kleins do an amazing job capturing the characters, and it's the best thing about the film. The story itself is a bit provincial. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the first movie from this pentalogy. (17.04.2014)