Capricious Summer (1968)
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...
Director:
Jiří Menzel
Writers:
Jiří Menzel, Václav Nývlt.
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Rudolf Hrušínský as Antonín Důra |
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Míla Myslíková as Katerina Durová |
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Vlastimil Brodský as Major Hugo |
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František Řehák as Canon Roch |
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Jana Preissová as Anna |
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Jiří Menzel as Arnoštek |
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Bohuš Záhorský as Starik |
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Vlasta Jelínková as Sluzebna |
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Alois Vachek as Man in pub |
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Bohumil Koška as Man in pub |
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Karel Hovorka as Man in pub |
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Pavel Bošek as Mayor |
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Antonín Pražák as Policeman |
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Ludvík Wolf as |
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Jaroslav Tomsa as |
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Karel Engel as |
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Jiří Kasík as |
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Jindra Fenclová as |
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Růžena Preisslerová as |
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Vladimír Pátek as Man in pub |
| Writing | Jiří Menzel | Screenplay |
| Writing | Václav Nývlt | Screenplay |
| Editing | Jiřina Lukešová | Editor |
| Art | Oldřich Bosák | Production Design |
| Sound | Jiří Šust | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Jiří Menzel | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | František Sadílek | Costumer |
| Camera | Petr Čech | Camera Operator |
| Production | Bohumil Šmída | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Vladislav Vančura | Novel |
| Directing | Anna Pokorná | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Vladimír Kalina | Dramaturgy |
| Directing | Miloš Kohout | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Vladimír Ježek | Set Decoration |
| Production | Richard Němec | Unit Production Manager |
| Production | Jaroslav Vágner | Unit Production Manager |
| Writing | Ladislav Fikar | Creative Producer |
| Crew | Jan Libora | Dramaturgy |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marie Machová | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | Jiří Kučera | Assistant Camera |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marie Broncová | Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rudolf Hammer | Makeup & Hair |
| Production | Zdeněk Oves | Production Manager |
| Crew | Luboš Ogoun | Choreographer |
| Art | Karel Kracík | Set Decoration |
| Art | Ladislav Winkelhöfer | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Dimitrovová | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Růžena Richterová | Makeup & Hair |
| Sound | Jiří Pavlík | Sound |
| Sound | František Belfín | Conductor |
| Camera | Jaromír Šofr | Director of Photography |
