Directed by Tomás Skrdlant and written by its subject, Frantisek Hrubín, this is a remembrance of childhood from Hrubín, who started the Czech children’s magazine, Mateřídouška (The Thyme) and would go on to write 18 movies, including one of the films that this is in the same box set with, the 1978 Juraj Herz directed Beauty and the Beast.

I found it interesting that in the far off away from the world place that the writer grew up, he’d only seen a photo of a poodle in a book and it may as well have been a mythological creature unless he’d seen that evidence.  It’s also interesting to watch a man who writes for children look back on the memories of his early years and think through all the places he has come through to end up where he is today.

Frantisek Hrubín is part of the new Severin box set, All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2.

You can order this set from Severin.