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.
Category: Comedy
Comedy
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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
Japanese comedy film.
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Chewingum
Geared to a teen and pre-teen audience, this juvenile romance is set in the last year of high school and involves the attraction between Isabella, a beautiful newcomer to the school, and Massimo, an introverted, hard-working young student .
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Mass Appeal
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
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Rokakias tin imera… to vrady kamariera
Babis, who is crazy about rock music, gives a performance with his band “Jelings Band” to his fellow villagers. However, they don’t like disco and beat him up. Disappointed, he heads to Athens to become a star. He meets Eva, the daughter of a big hotel owner. Eva starts to like him, unlike her friends who make fun of him. Bambis, penniless and level-headed, approaches the hotel manager and is hired as a chambermaid under the name Agrampeli. However, the ingenious detective Tsakmakis realizes what is going on…
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A Rena without brakes
Tired of money, multimillionaire Rena is afflicted with the disease of the rich: boredom. In her attempt to escape the monotony of her easy life, she meets a group of misfits and they all get involved in a series of wild and crazy adventures…
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Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda’s 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970’s.
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Popcorn und Paprika
The German national swimming team travels to Budapest for a competition. However, the teenagers are more interested in flirting with each other than training. Their coach is less than thrilled with his team’s behavior.
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Irreconcilable Differences
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
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Il ragazzo di campagna
A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.