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.
Directing | Jiří Menzel | Director |
Camera | Jiří Macák | Director of Photography |
Writing | Václav Erben | Creative Producer |
Writing | Bohumil Hrabal | Book |
Writing | Bohumil Hrabal | Screenplay |
Writing | Jiří Menzel | Screenplay |
Directing | Hana Hanušová | First Assistant Director |
Directing | Stanislava Hutková | Assistant Director |
Crew | Zuzana Plecerová | Script |
Crew | Václav Nývlt | Dramaturgy |
Camera | Jan Hanzal | Camera Operator |
Camera | Jiří Krejčík | Assistant Camera |
Art | Zbyněk Hloch | Production Design |
Art | Michael Poledník | Assistant Production Design |
Art | Ladislav Winkelhöfer | Property Master |
Art | Libor Čížek | Set Decoration |
Art | Karel Karas | Set Decoration |
Art | Jiří Žák | Set Decoration |
Costume & Make-Up | Běla Suchá | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Zuzana Máchová | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | Iveta Trmalová | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | Hana Zrostlíková | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | Tomáš Kuchta | Makeup & Hair |
Costume & Make-Up | Šárka Šimůnková | Makeup & Hair |
Costume & Make-Up | Pavel Minichbauer | Makeup & Hair |
Editing | Jiří Brožek | Editor |
Editing | Věra Flaková | Assistant Editor |
Editing | Eva Horázná | Assistant Editor |
Sound | Karel Jaroš | Sound |
Production | Jan Šuster | Production Manager |
Production | Jaroslav Bouček | Unit Production Manager |
Production | Zuzana Kožíková | Unit Production Manager |
Production | Miloslav Doležal | Unit Production Manager |
Camera | Jana Pokorná | Clapper Loader |
Lighting | Pavel Čáslavský | Gaffer |
Camera | Jiří Kučera | Still Photographer |
Sound | Jiří Šust | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Štěpán Koníček | Conductor |