The Snowdrop Festival
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.
Year: 1984
Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
Director: Jiří Menzel
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr, Petr Čepek, Miloslav Štibich, Petr Brukner
Crew: Jiří Menzel (Director), Jiří Macák (Director of Photography), Václav Erben (Creative Producer), Bohumil Hrabal (Book), Bohumil Hrabal (Screenplay), Jiří Menzel (Screenplay)
Runtime: 83 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1984
IMDb: 6.50/10 by 30 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Český
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : based on novel or book
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