The Snowdrop Festival
1984-01-01 | 83 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Rudolf HrušínskýJarin Franc
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Jaromír HanzlíkLeli
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Josef Somrkapitán VB Vyhnálek
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Petr Čepekřezník
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Petr Bruknertraktorista Janeček
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Rudolf Hrušínskýtraktoristův pomocník
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Jiří Schmitzerhostinský Láďa Novák
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Marie SpurnáNovákova žena
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Blažena HolišováFrancova žena
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Jiří Krejčík
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František Vláčil
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Jaroslav Vozáb
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František Řehák
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Libuše Šafránkováučitelka
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Zdena Hadrbolcová
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