- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Release: 1984-01-01
- Director: Jirí Menzel
- Writers: Bohumil Hrabal , Jirí Menzel
- Language: Czech
- Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský , Jaromír Hanzlík , Josef Somr , Petr Cepek , Miloslav Stibich , Petr Brukner , Rudolf Hrusínský , Eugen Jegorov , Borík Procházka , Jirí Schmitzer
- Runtime: 83 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: Slavnosti snezenek , Les fêtes des perce-neige (France, French Republic) , Праздник подснежников , Święto przebiśniegu (Poland) , Hóvirágünnep (Hungary) , The Snowdrop Festivities , The Snowdrop Festival , The Snowdrop Festivities (United States of America) , Slavnosti sněženek (Czech Republic) , Das Wildschwein ist los , Slavnosti sněženek , The Snowdrop Festivities (United Kingdom) , The Snowdrop Festival
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0086319
Jirí Menzel
Director
Rudolf Hrusínský
Jarin Franc
Jaromír Hanzlík
Leli
Josef Somr
kapitán VB Vyhnálek
Petr Cepek
řezník
Miloslav Stibich
Jelínek
Petr Brukner
traktorista Janeček
Rudolf Hrusínský
traktoristův pomocník
Eugen Jegorov
drogista
Borík Procházka
Liman
Jirí Schmitzer
hostinský Láďa Novák
Marie Spurná
Novákova žena
Blazena Holisová
Francova žena
Blanka Lormanová
Jirí Krejcík
Frantisek Vlácil
Ferdinand Havlík
Jaroslav Vozáb
Frantisek Rehák
Libuse Safránková
učitelka
Zdena Hadrbolcová
Zora Jiráková
Johana Tesarová
Pavel Vondruska
Ladislav Krivácek
Miroslav Korínek