Capricious Summer
Capricious Summer | |
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Directed by | Jiří Menzel |
Screenplay by | Vladimír Kalina Jan Libora Jiří Menzel Václav Nývlt |
Based on | Rozmarné léto by Vladislav Vančura |
Starring | Rudolf Hrušínský Vlastimil Brodský |
Cinematography | Jaromír Šofr |
Edited by | Jiřina Lukešová |
Music by | Jirí Šust |
Distributed by | Ústřední půjčovna filmů |
Release date |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Language | Czech |
Capricious Summer (Czech: Rozmarné léto) is a 1968 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel. It is based on the novel Rozmarné léto (Summer of Caprice) by the Czech writer Vladislav Vančura. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival,[1] but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The film won the Crystal Globe at 1968 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[2]
The film depicts a humorous story of three men, a major (an artillery officer), a priest and a bath-keeper, during rainy summer days.
Cast[]
- Rudolf Hrušínský as Antonín Dura
- Vlastimil Brodský as Major Hugo
- as priest / abbé / canon Roch
- Míla Myslíková as Kateřina Durová
- Jana Preissová as Anna (as Jana Drchalová)
- Jiří Menzel as Arnoštek, the tightrope walker
- Bohuš Záhorský as old man
- as housemaid (as V. Jelínková)
- as man in a pub (as A. Vachek)
- as man in a pub (as B. Koska)
- as man in a pub (as K. Hovorka)
- as policeman (as A. Prazak)
- as Mayor (as P. Bosek)
References[]
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Capricious Summer". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
- ^ "Capricious Summer (1967)". Filmový přehled.
External links[]
- Capricious Summer at IMDb
- Koresky, Michael. "Criterion Collection Essay". Retrieved 27 April 2012.
Categories:
- 1968 films
- Czech-language films
- 1968 comedy films
- Czech films
- Czech comedy films
- Czechoslovak films
- Films directed by Jiří Menzel
- Crystal Globe winners
- 1960s Czech film stubs
- 1960s comedy film stubs