Abstract
At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, the problem of alcoholism was dramatized in the Czech feature film, outweighing skepticism and resignation above the educational message. The article seeks answers to the question of how this trend merged with the teachings of the moral predominance of the socialist order over the capitalist one and with expected completion of the construction of socialism in Czechoslovakia.
It includes three shorter case studies dedicated to films At the Terminus (Tam na konečné, 1957), Today for the Last Time (Dnes naposled, 1958) and The Hope (Naděje, 1963).