Cutting It Short

Name: Cutting It Short
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2022-04-29
Cast: Magda Vášáryová, Jiří Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek

The manager of a small-town brewery tries to impress the board. But his temperamental wife and eccentric brother will make it all the more painful for him.

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Jiří Menzel

Czechoslovakia 1980

Czech

English

93 min.

12+

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About

Francin (Jirí Schmitzer), manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska (Magda Vásáryová) 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 (Jaromír Hanzlík) – eccentric, noisy and garrulous – turns up on an indefinite visit.

Digitally restored version of the film.

Credits

Director: Jiří Menzel

Based on: Bohumil Hrabal

Screenplay: Bohumil Hrabal, Jiří Menzel

Cinematography: Jaromír Šofr

Music: Jiří Šust

Sound: Karel Jaroš

Editing: Jiří Brožek

Production Design: Zbyněk Hloch

Producer: Jan Šuster

Costumes: Theodor Pištěk ml.

Cast: Magda Vášáryová, Jiří Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek, Oldřich Vlach, František Řehák, Miloslav Štibich