Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave
By April 25, 2012
Five remarkable filmmakers—Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš, Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, and Evald Schorm—helped reinvent Czechoslovakian cinema in the sixties. Read more »
- Czech Republic
- 1968
- 76 minutes
- Color
- 1.33:1
- Czech
SYNOPSIS: Two years after his worldwide hit Closely Watched Trains, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant. A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, Capricious Summer is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Antonín Dura | Rudolf Hrušínsky |
| Durová | Mila Myslíková |
| Major | Vlastimil Brodsky |
| Canon Roch | František Rehák |
| Anna | Jana Drchalová |
| Ernie | Jiří Menzel |
Credits
| Director | Jiří Menzel |
| Screenplay | Václav Nyvlt and Jiří Menzel |
| Script editing | Jan Libora and Vladimír Kalina |
| Cinematography | Jaromír Sofr |
| Art direction | Oldrich Bosák |
| Editor | Jirina Lukesová |
| Costumes | Olga Dimitrovová |
| Music | Jiří Sust |
