Capricious Summer

Overview

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...

Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský

Antonín Důra

Míla Myslíková

Katerina Durová

Vlastimil Brodský

Major Hugo

František Řehák

Canon Roch

Jana Preissová

Anna

Jiří Menzel

Arnoštek

Bohuš Záhorský

Starik

N/A

Vlasta Jelínková

Sluzebna

N/A

Alois Vachek

Man in pub

N/A

Bohumil Koška

Man in pub

N/A

Karel Hovorka

Man in pub

N/A

Pavel Bošek

Mayor