I Can jump puddles = I'm jumping over puddles again

This award winning film, based on Alan Marshall’s heartwarming book, has transferred the setting from the Australian outback to a huge stud farm in the picturesque countryside of Moravia, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turn of the century. Adam, the energetic son of a horse trainer contracts polio and is hospitalised. He is still determined, however, to fulfil his constant dream of riding a horse, and he persuades his friends to help him in secret. Czech language with English sub-titles. Not suitable for children.

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Credits

production company

Filmove Studio Barrandov

director

Karel Kachyna

Duration

01:28:00:00

Production places

Czechoslovakia

Production dates

1970

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324036

Languages

Czech

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Adaptations

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Czech Republic

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped

Foreign language films

Literature → Australian literature - Film and video adaptations

Literature → Children's literature - Film and video adaptations

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Czechoslovakia, 1970

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