Capricious Summer (1968)
1968 · Feature film · 76 min · dir. Jiří Menzel
- Comedy
- Romance
Synopsis
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...
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Writer
- Jiří Menzel
- Composer
- Jiří Šust
- Cinematography
- Jaromír Šofr
- Studio
- Filmové studio Barrandov
- Released
- 1968-05-24
- Original title
- Rozmarné léto
- Running time
- 76 minutes
- Language
- Czech
- Collection
- Comedy Films, Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Jiří Menzel
- Czech New Wave
- drama
- English-subtitles
Cast & crew
Jiří Menzel Director
Rudolf Hrušínský
Míla Myslíková
Vlastimil Brodský
František Řehák
Jana Preissová- Jiří Menzel
Bohuš Záhorský- Vlasta Jelínková