Capricious Summer
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...
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20 people
Rudolf Hrušínský
Antonín Důra
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Míla Myslíková
Katerina Durová
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Vlastimil Brodský
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František Řehák
Canon Roch
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Jana Preissová
Anna
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Jiří Menzel
Arnoštek
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Bohuš Záhorský
Starik
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Vlasta Jelínková
Sluzebna
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Alois Vachek
Man in pub
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Bohumil Koška
Man in pub
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Karel Hovorka
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Pavel Bošek
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Jiří Menzel Director · Václav Nývlt Screenplay Vladislav Vančura Author
United States release September 24, 1968 · Produced in XC, Czechia · Production Barrandov Studios
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
Production
Barrandov Studios
Studio · Production
XC · Czechia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Rozmarné léto
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
XC · May 24, 1968
Theatrical
United States · September 24, 1968
Theatrical
France
December 15, 2011 · Physical · DVD
Romania
October 18, 1968 · Theatrical
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