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The Snowdrop Festival (1984) [N/A]

Release Date:
January 1, 1984

Original Title:
Slavnosti sněženek

Alternate Titles:
Slavnosti snezenek
The Snowdrop Festival

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
Filmové studio Barrandov

Production Countries:
Czechoslovakia

Ratings / Certifications:
CZ: U 

Runtime: 83

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Assistant Camera:
Jiří Krejčík

Assistant Director:
Stanislava Hutková

Assistant Editor:
Věra Flaková
Eva Horázná

Assistant Production Design:
Michael Poledník

Book:
Bohumil Hrabal

Camera Operator:
Jan Hanzal

Clapper Loader:
Jana Pokorná

Conductor:
Štěpán Koníček

Costume Design:
Běla Suchá

Costumer:
Zuzana Máchová
Hana Zrostlíková
Iveta Trmalová

Creative Producer:
Václav Erben

Director:
Jiří Menzel

Director of Photography:
Jiří Macák

Dramaturgy:
Václav Nývlt

Editor:
Jiří Brožek

First Assistant Director:
Hana Hanušová

Gaffer:
Pavel Čáslavský

Makeup & Hair:
Pavel Minichbauer
Tomáš Kuchta
Šárka Šimůnková

Original Music Composer:
Jiří Šust

Production Design:
Zbyněk Hloch

Production Manager:
Jan Šuster

Property Master:
Ladislav Winkelhöfer

Screenplay:
Bohumil Hrabal
Jiří Menzel

Script:
Zuzana Plecerová

Set Decoration:
Karel Karas
Jiří Žák
Libor Čížek

Sound:
Karel Jaroš

Still Photographer:
Jiří Kučera

Unit Production Manager:
Jaroslav Bouček
Miloslav Doležal
Zuzana Kožíková

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