An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.
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| Magda Vásáryová | ... | Maryska | |
| Jirí Schmitzer | ... | Francin | |
| Jaromír Hanzlík | ... | Pepin | |
| Rudolf Hrusínský | ... | Dr. Gruntorád | |
| Petr Cepek | ... | Pán de Giogi | |
| Oldrich Vlach | ... | Ruzicka | |
| Frantisek Rehák | ... | Vejvoda | |
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Miloslav Stibich | ... | Bernádek |
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Alois Liskutín | ... | Sefl |
| Pavel Vondruska | ... | notár Lustig | |
| Rudolf Hrusínský | ... | Celedín (as Rudolf Hrusínsky ml.) | |
| Miroslav Donutil | ... | Podornek | |
| Oldrich Vízner | ... | Doda Cervinka | |
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Josef Vondrácek | ||
| Jaroslav Vozáb | ... | Dustojný pán | |
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Francin (Jirí Schmitzer), manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska (Magda Vásáryová) looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin (Jaromír Hanzlík) - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit. Written by NFA.cz
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And not only for Easterners. Of course, it is clearly not the cheap and easy humour you can face in that kind of slapstick silly comedies from Hollywood nowadays.
As many times in the tandem Hrabal/Menzel, the film exudes sense of humour, "joie de vivre" and natural acting. Characters are full of charm, flesh and blood, and life... yes, Central European life after WWI (some visits to the area are still a good help in order to take better understanding... but be careful because later the understanding becomes LOVE forever, I can assure)
Just waiting the next one by Menzel, based on another classic by Bohumil Hrabal: I served the King of England.
Personal note: I have been in love with Maryska (literary homage by Hrabal to his mother)since the blessed day I read the first lines in the book... some years ago.