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...

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Art

Oldřich Bosák

Production Design

Vladimír Ježek

Set Decoration

Karel Kracík

Set Decoration

Ladislav Winkelhöfer

Set Decoration

Camera

Petr Čech

Camera Operator

Jiří Kučera

Assistant Camera

Jaromír Šofr

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Marie Machová

Makeup & Hair

Rudolf Hammer

Makeup & Hair

Olga Dimitrovová

Costume Design

Růžena Richterová

Makeup & Hair

Crew

Vladimír Kalina

Dramaturgy

Jan Libora

Dramaturgy

Luboš Ogoun

Choreographer

Directing

Jiří Menzel

Director

Anna Pokorná

Assistant Director

Miloš Kohout

First Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Bohumil Šmída

Executive Producer

Richard Němec

Unit Production Manager

Jaroslav Vágner

Unit Production Manager

Zdeněk Oves

Production Manager

Sound

Jiří Šust

Original Music Composer

Writing

Jiří Menzel

Screenplay

Václav Nývlt

Screenplay

Ladislav Fikar

Creative Producer