Capricious Summer (1968) [NR]

Release Date:
May 24, 1968

Original Title:
Rozmarné léto

Genres:
Comedy | Romance

Production Companies:
Filmové studio Barrandov

Production Countries:
Czechoslovakia

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 74

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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Assistant Camera:
Jiří Kučera

Assistant Director:
Anna Pokorná

Camera Operator:
Petr Čech

Choreographer:
Luboš Ogoun

Conductor:
František Belfín

Costume Design:
Olga Dimitrovová

Costumer:
František Sadílek
Marie Broncová

Creative Producer:
Ladislav Fikar

Director:
Jiří Menzel

Director of Photography:
Jaromír Šofr

Dramaturgy:
Jan Libora
Vladimír Kalina

Editor:
Jiřina Lukešová

Executive Producer:
Bohumil Šmída

First Assistant Director:
Miloš Kohout

Makeup & Hair:
Rudolf Hammer
Růžena Richterová
Marie Machová

Novel:
Vladislav Vančura

Original Music Composer:
Jiří Šust

Production Design:
Oldřich Bosák

Production Manager:
Zdeněk Oves

Screenplay:
Václav Nývlt
Jiří Menzel

Set Decoration:
Vladimír Ježek
Karel Kracík
Ladislav Winkelhöfer

Sound:
Jiří Pavlík

Unit Production Manager:
Jaroslav Vágner
Richard Němec

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