This page is to obtain access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation ONLINE
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This series is exploring the Czech New Wave as well as the other filmmakers of that period.
The films will be in chronological order as much as possible.
Capricious Summer
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...
- Year:
- 1968
- Runtime:
- 74 minutes
- Language:
- Czech
- Director:
- Jiří Menzel
- Screenwriter:
- Jiří Menzel, Václav Nývlt
- Executive Producer:
- Bohumil Šmída
- Cast:
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Míla Myslíková, Vlastimil Brodský
- Cinematographer:
- Jaromír Šofr
- Editor:
- Jiřina Lukešová
- Production Design:
- Oldřich Bosák
- Composer:
- Jiří Šust
This page is to obtain access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation ONLINE
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
This series is exploring the Czech New Wave as well as the other filmmakers of that period.
The films will be in chronological order as much as possible.
Capricious Summer
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...
- Year:
- 1968
- Runtime:
- 74 minutes
- Language:
- Czech
- Director:
- Jiří Menzel
- Screenwriter:
- Jiří Menzel, Václav Nývlt
- Executive Producer:
- Bohumil Šmída
- Cast:
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Míla Myslíková, Vlastimil Brodský
- Cinematographer:
- Jaromír Šofr
- Editor:
- Jiřina Lukešová
- Production Design:
- Oldřich Bosák
- Composer:
- Jiří Šust