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Trailer
The Snowdrop Festival
6.5
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1h 23m
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1984
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
Rudolf Hrušínský poster
Rudolf Hrušínský
Jarin Franc
Jaromír Hanzlík poster
Jaromír Hanzlík
Leli
Josef Somr poster
Josef Somr
kapitán VB Vyhnálek
Petr Čepek poster
Petr Čepek
řezník
Miloslav Štibich poster
Miloslav Štibich
Jelínek
Petr Brukner poster
Petr Brukner
traktorista Janeček
Rudolf Hrušínský poster
Rudolf Hrušínský
traktoristův pomocník
Eugen Jegorov poster
Eugen Jegorov
drogista
Bořík Procházka poster
Bořík Procházka
Liman
Jiří Schmitzer poster
Jiří Schmitzer
hostinský Láďa Novák
Marie Spurná poster
Marie Spurná
Novákova žena
Blažena Holišová poster
Blažena Holišová
Francova žena
Blanka Lormanová poster
Blanka Lormanová
Jiří Krejčík poster
Jiří Krejčík
František Vláčil poster
František Vláčil
Ferdinand Havlík poster
Ferdinand Havlík
Jaroslav Vozáb poster
Jaroslav Vozáb
František Řehák poster
František Řehák
Libuše Šafránková poster
Libuše Šafránková
učitelka
Zdena Hadrbolcová poster
Zdena Hadrbolcová

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