The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
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.

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Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský Rudolf Hrušínský As: Jarin Franc
Jaromír Hanzlík Jaromír Hanzlík As: Leli
Josef Somr Josef Somr As: kapitán VB Vyhnálek
Petr Čepek Petr Čepek As: řezník
Miloslav Štibich Miloslav Štibich As: Jelínek
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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.


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Certification: U

Details

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Language: Český

Release Date: 01 January 1984

Country: XC

Runtime: 83m

Company Credits

Company: Filmové studio Barrandov

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Cast

Directed By

Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel

Director

Stanislava Hutková

Stanislava Hutková

Assistant Director

Hana Hanušová

Hana Hanušová

First Assistant Director

Zuzana Plecerová

Zuzana Plecerová

Script Supervisor

Writing Credits

Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel

Screenplay

Václav Erben

Václav Erben

Creative Producer

Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal

Screenplay

Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal

Book

Production Crew

Jan Šuster

Jan Šuster

Production Manager

Jaroslav Bouček

Jaroslav Bouček

Unit Manager

Miloslav Doležal

Miloslav Doležal

Unit Manager

Zuzana Kožíková

Zuzana Kožíková

Unit Manager

Edited By

Jiří Brožek

Jiří Brožek

Editor

Eva Horázná

Eva Horázná

Assistant Editor

Věra Flaková

Věra Flaková

Assistant Editor

Costume and Makeup

Sound

Jiří Šust

Jiří Šust

Original Music Composer

Karel Jaroš

Karel Jaroš

Sound

Štěpán Koníček

Štěpán Koníček

Conductor

Visual Effects

Not currently known.

Camera

Jiří Macák

Jiří Macák

Director of Photography

Jiří Krejčík

Jiří Krejčík

Assistant Camera

Jan Hanzal

Jan Hanzal

Camera Operator

Jana Pokorná

Jana Pokorná

Clapper Loader

Jiří Kučera

Jiří Kučera

Still Photographer

Lighting

Art Department

Zbyněk Hloch

Zbyněk Hloch

Production Design

Jiří Žák

Jiří Žák

Set Decoration

Michael Poledník

Michael Poledník

Assistant Production Design

Libor Čížek

Libor Čížek

Set Decoration

Karel Karas

Karel Karas

Set Decoration

Ladislav Winkelhöfer

Ladislav Winkelhöfer

Property Master

Other Crew

Václav Nývlt

Václav Nývlt

Dramaturgy

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