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.
Credits
The Snowdrop Festival Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Libuše Šafránková
She was 30, now 71 years old
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as učitelka |
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Jiří Schmitzer
He was 34, now 75 years old
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as hostinský Láďa Novák |
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Zdeněk Svěrák
He was 47, now 88 years old
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as řidič trabanta |
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Bohumil Hrabal
He was 69, 82 years old when he died
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as muž vynášející septik |
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Rudolf Hrušínský
He was 63, 73 years old when he died
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as Jarin Franc |
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Rudolf Hrušínský ml.
He was 37, now 78 years old
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as traktoristův pomocník |
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Petr Čepek
He was 43, 54 years old when he died
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as řezník |
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Zdeněk Srstka
He was 48, 83 years old when he died
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as Adamec |
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Josef Somr
He was 49, now 90 years old
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as kapitán VB Vyhnálek |
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Blažena Holišová
She was 53, 80 years old when she died
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as Francova žena |
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Miloslav Štibich
He was 55, 63 years old when he died
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as Jelínek |
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Petr Brukner
He was 40, now 81 years old
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as traktorista Janeček |
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Jaromír Hanzlík
He was 35, now 76 years old
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as Leli |
The Snowdrop Festival Crew
