The Snowdrop Festival
Slavnosti sněženek
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.
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Cast
Blažena Holišová
as Francova žena
Rudolf Hrušínský
as Jarin Franc
František Vláčil
Jaromír Hanzlík
as Leli
Josef Somr
as kapitán VB Vyhnálek
Petr Brukner
as traktorista Janeček
Jiří Schmitzer
as hostinský Láďa Novák
Rudolf Hrušínský
as traktoristův pomocník
Pavel Vondruška
Miroslav Moravec
as Voice in TV (voice)
Lubomír Kostelka
as Voice in TV (voice)
Jaroslav Vozáb
Ladislav Křiváček
Zdeněk Svěrák
as řidič trabanta
Zdeněk Srstka
as Adamec
Bohumil Hrabal
as muž vynášející septik
Marie Spurná
as Novákova žena
Jiří Krejčík
Libuše Šafránková
as učitelka
Johanna Tesařová
Zdena Hadrbolcová
Josef Abrhám
as Narrator in Radio (voice)
Petr Čepek
as řezník
Ferdinand Havlík
František Řehák
Jana Štěpánková
as Voice in TV (voice)
