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Capricious Summer (1968)
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Original name: Rozmarné léto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, metafiction
Audience:
date night
Plot:
circus, magic, young woman, summer, wine, adultery, renaissance, military officer, magic realism, friendship, wizards and magicians, friends, rich and poor, love and romance, midlife crisis, resort, follow your dream, couples, aging, rise and fall, clergy, human nature, bittersweet, unfulfillment, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, central europe
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