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Capricious Summer
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Title: Capricious Summer

Release Date: 24 May 1968

Runtime: 1h 14m

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Director: Filmové studio Barrandov

Production Companies: Filmové studio Barrandov

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 6.6 (28 votes)

Cast

  • Antonín Důra: Rudolf Hrušínský
  • Katerina Durová: Míla Myslíková
  • Major Hugo: Vlastimil Brodský
  • Canon Roch: František Řehák
  • Anna: Jana Preissová
  • Arnoštek: Jiří Menzel
  • Starik: Bohuš Záhorský
  • Sluzebna: Vlasta Jelínková
  • Man in pub: Alois Vachek
  • Man in pub: Bohumil Koška
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