The Snowdrop Festival
The Snowdrop Festival
The Snowdrop Festival
The Snowdrop Festival
The Snowdrop Festival
The Snowdrop Festival
The Snowdrop Festival

The Snowdrop Festival

Origin
Czechoslovakia
Original name
Slavnosti sněženek
Movie genre
Entry
CZK 80
Length
88 min
Director
Jiří Menzel
Release
1984
Rating
81 %
Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský, Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr, Petr Čepek, Miloslav Štibich, Petr Brukner, Rudolf Hrušínský ml., Eugen Jegorov, Jiří Schmitzer, Blažena Holišová, Blanka Lormanová, Jiří Krejčík, František Vláčil, František Řehák, Libuše Šafránková, Johanna Tesařová, Zdena Hadrbolcová, Pavel Vondruška, Zdeněk Svěrák

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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