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Cutting It Short (1981)

★ 7.1/10 93 min Comedy Czechoslovakia Czech
Director: Jiří Menzel
Screenplay by: Jiří Menzel, Bohumil Hrabal
Creative Producer: Miloš Brož
Novel: Bohumil Hrabal
Streaming: Not available

Description

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.

Top Cast

Magda Vášáryová
Magda Vášáryová Maryška
Jiří Schmitzer
Jiří Schmitzer správce pivovaru Francin, Maryščin muž
Jaromír Hanzlík
Jaromír Hanzlík Pepin, Francinův bratr
Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský MUDr. Gruntorád, předseda správní rady pivovaru
Petr Čepek
Petr Čepek mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady
Oldřich Vlach
Oldřich Vlach hoteliér Růžička
František Řehák
František Řehák statkář Vejvoda
Miloslav Štibich kovář Bernádek

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