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Capricious Summer (1968)

NR ★ 6.4/10 74 min Comedy, Romance Czechoslovakia Czech
Director: Jiří Menzel
Screenplay by: Václav Nývlt, Jiří Menzel
Novel: Vladislav Vančura
Creative Producer: Ladislav Fikar
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Description

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...

Top Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský Antonín Důra
Míla Myslíková
Míla Myslíková Katerina Durová
Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský Major Hugo
František Řehák
František Řehák Canon Roch
Jana Preissová
Jana Preissová Anna
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel Arnoštek
Bohuš Záhorský
Bohuš Záhorský Starik
Vlasta Jelínková Sluzebna

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