Director: Jiri Menzel
Country: Czechoslovakia
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Movement: none
The Snowdrop Festival is a 1984 Czechoslovak comedy film, directed by Jiří Menzel, based on the book by Bohumil Hrabal, who plays a small part in the film. 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.
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