2017-09-01 20:30:00
Kepler - Open air cinema
Cinema
Cutting It Short (original title: Postřižiny) is a Czechoslovakian feature film based on the Bohumil Hrabal novel of the same title, directed by Jiří Menzel in 1980.
The enchanting atmosphere of familiarity reins in this sleepy yet jolly provincial town at the beginning of the 1920s. It seems as if inherited traditions would rule in the distinct world of the brewery, but in reality change slowly reaches everything. Francin, the young janitor in the brewery buys a radio, and this brilliant invention once for all proves that the time of “shortcuts” has arrived: everything is getting closer, distances decrease. The firm exchanges the horses for an automobile, Pepin saws off the legs of the table, and Mariska cuts her once to-the-thighs-long hair fashionably short. This is the dawn of a new world.
Cast:
Mariska - Magda Vásáryová
Francin - Jiří Schmitzer
Pepin - Jaromír Hanzlík
Dr. Gruntorad - Rudolf Hrusínský
De Giogi Esq., fire-marshal - Petr Čepek
Credits:
Directed byJirí Menzel
Written by Bohumil Hrabal
Script: Jirí Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal
Music by Jirí Sust
Cinematography by Jaromír Sofr
Film editing by Jirí Brozek
