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The Snowdrop Festival (1984)

Genre : Comedy, Drama

Runtime : 1H 23M

Director : Jiří Menzel

Synopsis

This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.

Actors

Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
Jarin Franc
Jaromír Hanzlík
Jaromír Hanzlík
Leli
Josef Somr
Josef Somr
kapitán VB Vyhnálek
Petr Čepek
Petr Čepek
řezník
Miloslav Štibich
Miloslav Štibich
Jelínek
Petr Brukner
Petr Brukner
traktorista Janeček
Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
traktoristův pomocník
Eugen Jegorov
Eugen Jegorov
drogista
Bořík Procházka
Bořík Procházka
Liman
Jiří Schmitzer
Jiří Schmitzer
hostinský Láďa Novák
Marie Spurná
Marie Spurná
Novákova žena
Blažena Holišová
Blažena Holišová
Francova žena
Libuše Šafránková
Libuše Šafránková
učitelka
Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdeněk Svěrák
řidič trabanta
Zdeněk Srstka
Zdeněk Srstka
Adamec
Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal
muž vynášející septik
Milada Štýbrová
Milada Štýbrová
dlouhovlasá tenistka

Crews

Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel
Director
Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal
Story
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel
Writer
Jiří Macák
Jiří Macák
Director of Photography

Posters and backgrounds

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