ABSTRACT
The original short story of Black Peter was still in manuscript. In America, the tendency is for a literary collaborator to try to understand what it is his partner wants and how he cansatisfy him best. For the accounting office, Black Peter was a minor, contemporary film; but for me it was a super-colossal production from the distant past. The creator of Black Peter has shown that he knows the generation that came fifteen years after him, that he likes these youngsters, that he understands them and has compassion for them. Black Peter is a happy film; and despite the indictments it makes, it is profoundly human. It is full of humor and compassion. In what it fights against and what it defends, it is a genuinely socialist film. Black Peter has added a sequel to Czechoslovak cinematography's success of last year, and entirely on its own terms.
