Movielogr
Capricious Summer (1968)
Directed by Jiří Menzel
Overview
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…
Rated NR | Length 74 minutes
Actors
Rudolf Hrušínský | Míla Myslíková | Vlastimil Brodský | František Řehák | Jana Preissová | Jiří Menzel | Bohuš Záhorský | Vlasta Jelínková | Alois Vachek | Bohumil Koska | Karel Hovorka st. | Vladimír Pátek | Pavel Bosek | Antonin Prazak | Ludvík Volf | Jaroslav Tomsa | Karel Engel | Jirí Kašík | Jindra Fenclová | Růžena Preisslerová