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.
Genre : ComedyDrama
Runtime : 83 mins
Release Date : 1984-01-01
(Jarin Franc)
(Leli)
(kapitán VB Vyhnálek)
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(Jelínek)
(traktorista Janeček)
(traktoristův pomocník)
(drogista)
(Liman)
(hostinský Láďa Novák)
(Novákova žena)
(Francova žena)
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(Adamec)
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(muž vynášející septik)
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(Long-haired Tennis Player(uncredited))
(Narrator in Radio (voice))
(Voice in TV (voice))
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