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:
Václav Nývlt, Jiří Menzel.
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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 |
| Directing | Jiří Menzel | Director |
| Writing | Václav Nývlt | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jiří Menzel | Screenplay |
| Sound | Jiří Šust | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Jiřina Lukešová | Editor |
| Art | Oldřich Bosák | Production Design |
| Writing | Vladislav Vančura | Novel |
| Directing | Miloš Kohout | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Anna Pokorná | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Jan Libora | Dramaturgy |
| Crew | Vladimír Kalina | Dramaturgy |
| Camera | Petr Čech | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Jiří Kučera | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Vladimír Ježek | Set Decoration |
| Art | Karel Kracík | Set Decoration |
| Art | Ladislav Winkelhöfer | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Dimitrovová | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | František Sadílek | Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marie Broncová | Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rudolf Hammer | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Růžena Richterová | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marie Machová | Makeup & Hair |
| Sound | Jiří Pavlík | Sound |
| Production | Zdeněk Oves | Production Manager |
| Production | Jaroslav Vágner | Unit Production Manager |
| Production | Richard Němec | Unit Production Manager |
| Sound | František Belfín | Conductor |
| Crew | Luboš Ogoun | Choreographer |
| Writing | Ladislav Fikar | Creative Producer |
| Production | Bohumil Šmída | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Jaromír Šofr | Director of Photography |
