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The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
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.
Keywords: imdb.central-europe,
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imdb.20th-century-literature-on-screen + 29 more,
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imdb.rivalry,
imdb.rival,
imdb.painter,
imdb.collector,
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imdb.tragicomedy,
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tmdb.based-on-novel-or-book
Production Companies: Filmové studio Barrandov
Country: Czechoslovakia
Languages:
Czech
Runtime: 83 min.
Released: Jan. 1, 1984
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 7+
