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The Snowdrop Festival (1984)

Directed by Jiří Menzel

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.

Length 83 minutes

Actors

Rudolf Hrušínský | Jaromír Hanzlík | Josef Somr | Petr Čepek | Miloslav Štibich | Petr Brukner | Rudolf Hrušínský ml. | Eugen Jegorov | Bořík Procházka | Jiří Schmitzer | Marie Spurná | Blažena Holišová | Blanka Lormanová | Jiří Krejčík | František Vláčil | Ferdinand Havlík | Jaroslav Vozáb | František Řehák | Libuše Šafránková | Zdena Hadrbolcová | Zora Jiráková | Johanna Tesařová | Pavel Vondruška | Ladislav Křiváček | Miroslav Kořínek | Zdeněk Svěrák | Alena Kahovcová | Vladimír Jilemnický | Jiří Fiala | Zdeněk Srstka | Jaroslav Klenot | Jirí Kašík | Jaroslav Vlk | Jaroslav Tomsa | Pavla Vaňourková | Bohumil Hrabal | Václav Ascherl | Jiří Glos | Jaroslav Janouch | Josef Cabrnoch | Ladislav Daněček | Oldřich Petrák | Josef Vojáček | Milada Štýbrová | Josef Abrhám | Petr Skarke | Jana Štěpánková | Miroslav Moravec | Lubomír Kostelka