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Director:
Writers:
Vladimír Kalina (dramatisation)
Jan Libora (dramatisation)
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Release Date:
24 September 1968 (USA) more
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Plot:
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing... more | add synopsis
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2 wins more
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Cast

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Rudolf Hrusínský ... Antonín Dura
Vlastimil Brodský ... Maj. Hugo
Frantisek Rehák ... Priest / abbé / canon Roch
Míla Myslíková ... Katerina Durová
Jana Preissová ... Anna (as Jana Drchalová)
Jirí Menzel ... Arnostek (tightrope walker)
Bohus Záhorský ... Starik
Vlasta Jelínková ... Sluzebna (as V. Jelínková)
Alois Vachek ... Muz v hospode (as A. Vachek)
Bohumil Koska ... Muz v hospode (as B. Koska)
Karel Hovorka ... Muz v hospode (as K. Hovorka)
Antonin Prazak ... Policajt (as A. Prazak)
Pavel Bosek ... Mayor (as P. Bosek)
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Also Known As:
Capricious Summer (USA)
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Runtime:
74 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Edited into Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) more

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Irony and icon, 1 March 2009
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Author: tomquick from illinois

Most of the Czech films I've seen follow a familiar pattern: a history lesson revolving around war or occupation, along with lots of bohemian irony and iconic images, usually of Prague. This one's different. I enjoyed Kolya, and Menzel's other films (Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England), but I prefer this one for leaving out the pathos.

The irony would come through more clearly if I spoke any Czech beyond "dobre den", but this film still has plenty. A tattered little town with unpaved streets, drenched by miserable summer rain the whole way through. A visit by a fleabag circus supplies a limited amount of merriment - about what the little town deserves. About all they've come to expect, too, in their sodden little corner of Bohemia.

I wouldn't have watched this film at all if I hadn't already "read" the book. Josef Capek's witty illustrations for the novel led me to a movie which is every bit as good, and which fills in the details I couldn't read between the pictures.

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