Capricious Summer (1967)
Directed by Jiří Menzel
Genres - Comedy Drama |
Sub-Genres - Comedy of Manners |
Run Time - 75 min. |
Countries - Czechia |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
The Czechoslovakian Capricious Summer is based on a novel by Jan Libora. The plot focuses on three middle-aged vacationers at a summer resort. The tourist's plans for rest and relaxation are messed up when a circus tightrope walker and his toothsome daughter arrive on the scene. Director Jiri Menzel (the man responsible for the international success Closely Watched Trains) appears as the circus performer. A valentine to lost innocence, Capricious Summer won the Grand Prix at Karlovy Vary, an East European film festival.
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army-officer, priest, resort, vacation, temptation, tightrope-walker, carnival, girl, bathhouse, mid-life-crisis, Summer
