“Milos Forman's first feature, made in 1964 when the Twist was the latest craze in Eastern Europe, tells the story of 17-year-old Peter who gets a distasteful job as a fink/"detective” in a supermarket. Confounded by the adult world, misunderstood by his well-intentioned parents, awkward in romance, Peter manifests the ironical resignation so typical of Forman's characters. Newsweek called this film ‘a timeless comedy.' Roger Greenspun in the New York Times wrote, ‘I cannot remember a film so wonderfully sensitive to summer pleasures... very funny, but more importantly, it is also very true.'”