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Slecna od vody (the title is a phraseograph that means a young woman who prefers enjoying herself and her boyfriends to her job and who spends almost all her time with swimming, burning off and joking) is a nice movie about a casual friendship (or a becoming love) of young workers. Although it is based on schematic tendentious plot, it has great charm because it catches different Prague places (stylized in aesthetic of social realism) and people. Young beautiful woman noticed her factory-clerks that she was ill but she wasn't. She only wanted to go to the river and laze away. Her dress had been stolen and one young handsome worker helped her and they both maybe fell in love. It is a banal anecdote, but it also has a nice and fairy atmosphere. Good colors, light music, many little jokes and episodic scenes and great Czech actors (e.g. Jaroslav Marvan as father of the heroine, Josef Kemr as a clerk from her factory). Prague of fifties was different in fact. This is tendentious interpretation: Prague is the city of happy people in this movie. But the nostalgia is nostalgia.