Capricious Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-09-24

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

Runtime:

74 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (809 Reviews)

Director:

Jirè Menzel

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Rudolf Hrusènskè Vlastimil Brodskè Frantisek Rehèk Mèla Myslèkovè

Writer:

Vladimèr Kalina (dramatisation)

Jan Libora (dramatisation)

Jirè Menzel

Vèclav Nèvlt

Vladislav Vancura (novel)

Fullplot:

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...

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