The Prime of Life

Juraj is a Slovak painter. He lives in Prague. He is past thirty. The title points to the age Christ is said to have reached. Juraj takes stock of his life. He sees that his days pass without purpose. Until now he has avoided every kind of obligation. A choice is in front of him. He is caught between two women. He cannot decide whether to live in the city or the country. Making art and making a living pull at each other too. His relations with the people close to him force him to look at himself. His brother Andrej, who is a pilot, matters in that looking. It was the first feature its director made. The film took a prize at Mannheim. Jiří Sýkora and Jana Stehnová appear in the ninety three minute film, a Czechoslovak production Juraj Jakubisko finished in 1967.