The Snowdrop Festival
83 mins
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.
Miloslav Štibich
Jelínek
Eugen Jegorov
drogista
Bořík Procházka
Liman
Milada Štýbrová
Long-haired Tennis Player(uncredited)
Petr Skarke
Voice in TV (voice)
Jiří Macák
Director of Photography
Jan Šuster
Production Manager
Jaroslav Bouček
Unit Production Manager
Václav Erben
Creative Producer
Zbyněk Hloch
Production Design
Tomáš Kuchta
Makeup & Hair
Stanislava Hutková
Assistant Director
Běla Suchá
Costume Design
Hana Zrostlíková
Costumer
Jiří Žák
Set Decoration
Jiří Šust
Original Music Composer
Eva Horázná
Assistant Editor
Jan Hanzal
Camera Operator
Václav Nývlt
Dramaturgy
Michael Poledník
Assistant Production Design
Libor Čížek
Set Decoration
Zuzana Máchová
Costumer
Zuzana Kožíková
Unit Production Manager
Pavel Čáslavský
Gaffer
Zuzana Plecerová
Script
Karel Karas
Set Decoration
Iveta Trmalová
Costumer
Hana Hanušová
First Assistant Director
Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Property Master
Jana Pokorná
Clapper Loader
Jiří Kučera
Still Photographer
Věra Flaková
Assistant Editor
Šárka Šimůnková
Makeup & Hair
Miloslav Doležal
Unit Production Manager
Pavel Minichbauer
Makeup & Hair
Štěpán Koníček
Conductor