Five Girls Around the Neck ( Pět holek na krku), Evald Schorm, 1967

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a persons character is formed for good or evil. Schorm examined a girls problems of being giving too much. She tries to buy the goodwill of her less fortunate friends; her intentions are pure, but in the difficulty of communicating she learns envy and deceit, and must decide if she will submit to double dealing or steel her life against selfdeception and mediocrity. In addition to the relationship between the girl and her friends, Schorm introduces a teenage romance and the broader relationship between the girls parents neatly tied together with segments of Webers opera Der Freischütz. He reveals himself as a skilled psychological director with a wide range of knowledge about people.