Capricious Summer (1968)
Rozmarné léto
74 min
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
- Release date
- May 24, 1968
- Country of origin
- XC
Where to watch
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Criterion Channel
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Cast
- Rudolf Hrušínský as Antonín Dura
- Míla Myslíková as Katerina Durová
- Vlastimil Brodský as Maj. Hugo
- František Řehák as Canon Roch
- Jana Preissová as Anna
- Jiří Menzel as Ernie
- Bohuš Záhorský as Starik
- Vlasta Jelínková as Sluzebna
- Alois Vachek as Muz v hospode
- Bohumil Koska as Muz v hospode
- Karel Hovorka as Man in pub
- Pavel Bosek as Mayor
- Jaroslav Tomsa
- Karel Engel
Crew
- Jiří Menzel · Director
- Vladislav Vancura · Writer
- Václav Nývlt · Writer
- Jiří Menzel · Writer
- Jan Libora · Writer
- Jiří Šust · Composer
- Jaromír Šofr · Cinematographer
- Jiřina Lukešová · Editor
- Oldřich Bosák · Production designer