Genres
Production Companies
Cutting It Short (Postřižiny)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Jiří Menzel
Director of Photography: Jaromír Šofr
Screenplay: Bohumil Hrabal, Jiří Menzel
Top Cast
Magda Vášáryová
Maryška
Jiří Schmitzer
správce pivovaru Francin, Maryščin muž
Jaromír Hanzlík
Pepin, Francinův bratr
Rudolf Hrušínský
MUDr. Gruntorád, předseda správní rady pivovaru
Petr Čepek
mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady
Oldřich Vlach
hoteliér Růžička
František Řehák
statkář Vejvoda
Miloslav Štibich
kovář Bernádek
