Jízda (1994)

Two buddies decide to make the most of their summer vacation by taking a road trip. With their 8,000 crowns, they find a Mazda 626 Coupé 1600, which they turn into a convertible and decorate with French license plates so the police will leave them alone. And off they go, wherever the road takes them—east or west, it makes no difference: the countryside is very pretty in either direction, and, as the song says, “We’ll find a place where we can smoke in peace, where the sun doesn’t heat the bottles too much, where the wind scatters bird droppings around us, where we can enjoy whatever we like and calmly keep watch for someone coming, someone who knows we’re sitting there and will say, ‘Hi, guys.’” They would quite like to spice up their escapade by meeting a Romanian woman, a Hungarian woman... but first they pick up an elderly peasant woman armed with a rake, for just a few yards. She wishes them luck in meeting a young girl, and that’s exactly what happens: they pick one up as she’s kneeling by the roadside. The journey continues according to the three heroes’ whims: for example, ignoring a bend in the road, cheating an ice-cream seller, swimming in a lake, asking some gullible “naturals” for directions to hell, driving three to a car, and squatting in a country villa... Despite their carefree nature, they are rather worried because a man in a black car is chasing them—or, rather, looking for Anna, who is hiding in their car. She offers no explanation of her relationship with “Jeannot,” the mysterious man, but seems to be playing cat and mouse with everyone, especially Radek, who is charmed by “her pretty laugh, her beautiful red hair, her soft peach-like fuzz,” though he will not go through with it. This lovely journey will come to an end, and, as all good things must, it ends in a surprising way.