The Snowdrop Festival
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.
Featured Crew
| Jiří Menzel | Director |
| Jiří Macák | Director of Photography |
| Václav Erben | Creative Producer |
| Bohumil Hrabal | Book |
| Bohumil Hrabal | Screenplay |
| Jiří Menzel | Screenplay |
| Hana Hanušová | First Assistant Director |
| Stanislava Hutková | Assistant Director |
| Zuzana Plecerová | Script |
| Václav Nývlt | Dramaturgy |
