The Snowdrop Festival

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský

Jarin Franc

Age : 73 | Popularity : 6%

Jaromír Hanzlík

Leli

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Josef Somr

kapitán VB Vyhnálek

Age : 90 | Popularity : 3%

Petr Čepek

řezník

Age : 54 | Popularity : 6%

Miloslav Štibich

Jelínek

Age : 63 | Popularity : 3%

Petr Brukner

traktorista Janeček

Age : 80 | Popularity : 4%

Rudolf Hrušínský

traktoristův pomocník

Age : 77 | Popularity : 3%

Eugen Jegorov

drogista

Age : 55 | Popularity : 8%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jiří Menzel
Writing	Writer	Jiří Menzel
	Story	Bohumil Hrabal
Camera	Director of Photography	Jiří Macák
Department	Role	Name

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