Overview
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 Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast & Characters
Rudolf Hrušínský
Antonín Důra
Míla Myslíková
Katerina Durová
Vlastimil Brodský
Major Hugo
František Řehák
Canon Roch
Jana Preissová
Anna
Jiří Menzel
Arnoštek
Bohuš Záhorský
Starik
Vlasta Jelínková
Sluzebna
Alois Vachek
Man in pub
Bohumil Koška
Man in pub
Karel Hovorka
Man in pub
Pavel Bošek
Mayor
Directors & Crew
Václav Nývlt
Screenplay
Jiří Menzel
Director
Jiří Menzel
Screenplay
Screenshots & Stills
