Cutting It Short

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.

• Jiří MenzelDirector
• Jiří ŠustOriginal Music Composer
• Bohumil HrabalScreenplay
• Jiří MenzelScreenplay

• Magda VášáryováMaryška
• Jiří Schmitzersprávce pivovaru Francin, Maryščin muž
• Jaromír HanzlíkPepin, Francinův bratr
• Rudolf HrušínskýMUDr. Gruntorád, předseda správní rady pivovaru
• Petr Čepekmistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady
• Oldřich Vlachhoteliér Růžička
• František Řehákstatkář Vejvoda
• Miloslav Štibichkovář Bernádek
• Alois Liškutínředitel spořitelny Šefl
• Pavel Vondruškanotář Lustig
• Rudolf Hrušínskýsladovník v pivovaře
• Oldřich Víznerkadeřník Boďa Červinka