The Snowdrop Festival
01/01/1984
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.
Movie Information
Rudolf Hrušínský
as Jarin Franc
Jaromír Hanzlík
as Leli
Josef Somr
as kapitán VB Vyhnálek
Petr Čepek
as řezník
Miloslav Štibich
as Jelínek
Petr Brukner
as traktorista Janeček
Rudolf Hrušínský
as traktoristův pomocník
Eugen Jegorov
as drogista
Bořík Procházka
as Liman
Jiří Schmitzer
as hostinský Láďa Novák
Marie Spurná
as Novákova žena
Blažena Holišová
as Francova žena
Blanka Lormanová
as
Jiří Krejčík
as
František Vláčil
as
Ferdinand Havlík
as
Jaroslav Vozáb
as
František Řehák
as
Libuše Šafránková
as učitelka
Zdena Hadrbolcová
as
Zora Jiráková
as
Johanna Tesařová
as
Pavel Vondruška
as
Ladislav Křiváček
as
Miroslav Kořínek
as
Zdeněk Svěrák
as řidič trabanta
Alena Kahovcová
as
Vladimír Jilemnický
as
Jiří Fiala
as
Zdeněk Srstka
as Adamec
Jaroslav Klenot
as
Jiří Kasík
as
Jaroslav Vlk
as
Jaroslav Tomsa
as
Pavla Vaňourková
as
Bohumil Hrabal
as muž vynášející septik
Václav Ascherl
as
Jiří Glos
as
Jaroslav Janouch
as
Josef Cabrnoch
as
Ladislav Daněček
as
Oldřich Petrák
as
Josef Vojáček
as
Milada Štýbrová
as Long-haired Tennis Player(uncredited)
Josef Abrhám
as Narrator in Radio (voice)
Petr Skarke
as Voice in TV (voice)
Jana Štěpánková
as Voice in TV (voice)
Miroslav Moravec
as Voice in TV (voice)
Lubomír Kostelka
as Voice in TV (voice)
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