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Capricious Summer

6.419681h 14mNRMovieComedyRomance

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…

DirectorJiří Menzel
WritersJiří Menzel·Václav Nývlt
ProducerBohumil Šmída

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Cast · Directed by Jiří Menzel

RHRudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
Antonín Důra
MMMíla Myslíková
Míla Myslíková
Katerina Durová
VBVlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský
Major Hugo
FŘFrantišek Řehák
František Řehák
Canon Roch
JPJana Preissová
Jana Preissová
Anna
JMJiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel
Arnoštek
BZBohuš Záhorský
Bohuš Záhorský
Starik
VJ
Vlasta Jelínková
Sluzebna
AV
Alois Vachek
Man in pub
BK
Bohumil Koška
Man in pub
KH
Karel Hovorka
Man in pub
PB
Pavel Bošek
Mayor

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