Capricious Summer
Rozmarné léto
Czechoslovakia • 1968
Director
Synopsis
Two years after his worldwide hit CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant. A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, CAPRICIOUS SUMMER is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries.
Synopsis
Two years after his worldwide hit CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant. A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, CAPRICIOUS SUMMER is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorJiří Menzel
WriterVáclav Nývlt, Jiří Menzel
CinematographerJaromír Šofr
ComposerJiří Šust
EditorJiřina Lukešová
Cast
Rudolf Hrušínskýas Antonín Důra
Míla Myslíkováas Katerina Durová
Vlastimil Brodskýas Major Hugo
František Řehákas Canon Roch