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The story of a young girl whose accident takes her out of the spotlight she enjoyed as a star gymnast and brings her among the outsiders sentenced to life in a wheelchair.Fanny is ten, and she is the star of her sports gymnastics team. She is the best; she realizes this and behaves accordingly among her classmates. This hits her back in the form of envy and estrangement and Fanny gets to be ever lonelier. She lives only with her father; her mother has remarried and is expecting a baby with her new partner. And so Fanny makes up for her loneliness with her sports success. All the harder is it for her to come to terms with the results of her tragic accident that has definitely put an end to her sports career and leaves her tied to a wheelchair. However, just when it would seem that she has lost all meaning in life Fanny discovers new values and starts to comprehend the power of love and friendship – to realize that they are values we must know how to give and also receive.
35mm | 72´ | © 2001
director(s): Věra Šimková-Plívová, Drahomíra Králová
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Věra Šimková-Plívová
director of photography: Juraj Šajmovič
cast: Veronika Žilková, David Matásek, Emília Vašáryová, Jiří Pecha, Magdalena Reifová, Pavla Hermanová, Karolina Krejčí
rights available: TV, Video
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English
other data: Fetsival Awards: The Best Film Award and The Best Young Actress Award, The Best Man Supporting Role Award - International Children ´s Film Festival "Artek" 2002
The Best Direction (feature film category) – Golden Knight, Riazan 2002