The read
It runs a compact 1h 14m.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
34 audience votes
Key crew
- Jiří MenzelDirector
- Václav NývltScreenplay
- Jiří MenzelScreenplay
- Jiří ŠustOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Rudolf HrušínskýAntonín Důra
- Míla MyslíkováKaterina Durová
- Vlastimil BrodskýMajor Hugo
- František ŘehákCanon Roch
- Jana PreissováAnna
- Jiří MenzelArnoštek
- Bohuš ZáhorskýStarik
- Vlasta JelínkováSluzebna
- Alois VachekMan in pub
- Bohumil KoškaMan in pub
- Karel HovorkaMan in pub
- Pavel BošekMayor