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Capricious Summer

Capricious Summer (1968)

1h 14m | PG-13

⭐ 6.6 / 10

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...

Director: Jiří Menzel

Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Video: 720p

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Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský

Rudolf Hrušínský

as Antonín Důra

Míla Myslíková

Míla Myslíková

as Katerina Durová

Vlastimil Brodský

Vlastimil Brodský

as Major Hugo

František Řehák

František Řehák

as Canon Roch

Jana Preissová

Jana Preissová

as Anna

Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel

as Arnoštek