The Snowdrop Festivities

The Snowdrop Festivities

Slavnosti snezenek
🎞️ Movie 83 min CZ
โ˜… 7.5 /10 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.

Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
Franc
Jaromír Hanzlík
Jaromír Hanzlík
Leli
Josef Somr
Josef Somr
kapitán VB Vyhnálek
Petr Čepek
Petr Čepek
Rezník
๐Ÿ‘ค
Miloslav Štibich
Jelinek
๐Ÿ‘ค
Petr Brukner
Traktorista Janecek
Rudolf Hrusínský
Rudolf Hrusínský
Traktoristuv pomocník
Eugen Jegorov
Eugen Jegorov
Drogist
Bořík Procházka
Bořík Procházka
Liman
Jirí Schmitzer
Jirí Schmitzer
hostinský Láda Novák
๐Ÿ‘ค
Jiří Šust
Composer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Jirí Macák
Cinematographer