83m •
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.
Filmové studio Barrandov • XC
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
1984•
0
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0
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0
1977•
7.0
2020•
7.0
1959•
5.8
1966•
7.3
1972•
5.5
1999•
6.8
1962•
7.3
1968•
7.8
2001•
7.7
1999•
5.7
1957•
7.8
2004•
7.2
1988•
7.5
1988•
7.2
1993•
5.5
1996•
6.0
