Báječná léta pod psa (English: Those Wonderful Years That Sucked)[1] is a 1997 Czech comedy drama film adapted from the book of the same title by Michal Viewegh.
Directed by Petr Nikolaev and starring Libuše Šafránková, Ondřej Vetchý and Jakub Wehrenberg, the film portrays a young family struggling through the twenty years of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
In the early 1960s Prague, Kvido is born prematurely during a Waiting for Godot performance, as if heralding his future intellectual inclinations and fondness of literature.
Aleš, a talented economist, finds a job at a local glassworks company thanks to his college friend Žvára, but struggles with adjusting to the communist regime.
After unsuccessful attempts at making him feel better, the desperate Milena persuades Kvido and Jaruška to have a baby, hoping that a grandchild would help Aleš overcome his depression.