We were working from a such a low budget on a very short schedule that finding ways to simplify what we had planned became a daily ritual. Everything we had organized had to be slashed to half the shots in a third of the time. Milos Forman provided a master class in production economy with this movie. It is a treasure trove of great ideas and he developed a new dialect in cinema language to express them all with humor and soul.

— Jake Paltrow

Miloš Forman’s stylistically inventive debut narrative feature follows the bumbling teenager of the title (Ladislav Jakim) over the course of a directionless summer as he starts (and fails at) a new job, flirts awkwardly, and grows increasingly exasperated with his parents. A refreshingly frank, unromanticized coming-of-age portrait, Black Peter captures the bewildering experience of adolescence with both empathy and sly humor. (Janus Films)