🎬 Capricious Summer (1968)

Jiří Menzel is a Czech film and theatre director, best known internationally for Closely Watched Trains (1966), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His work is closely associated with the Czech New Wave and the literary world of Bohumil Hrabal. Alongside his film career he has directed numerous…

Bohumil Koška (1923-2002) was a Czech actor and assistant director, associated with the Činoherní klub theatre in Prague. He appeared in several late-1960s films, including Prague Nights (1969) and Čtyři v kruhu (1968).

Míla Myslíková (1933–2005) was a Czech film, television, and theatre actress who trained at JAMU in Brno. Over more than four decades she appeared in over 90 roles, becoming best known for her comedic portrayals of spirited women and warm-hearted mothers. She is fondly remembered as Mrs. Šafránková in Dušan Klein's se…

Rudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor during his country's era of communism. He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský (original name Rudolf Böhm, also took the stage name Otomar Otovalský). He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky. Ini…

František Řehák (1923-2017) was a Czech stage and film actor who spent most of his career at the Olomouc theatre. Director Jiří Menzel brought him to wider attention, casting him first in Capricious Summer (1967) and later in a string of films including Cutting It Short (1980), where he played the farmer Vejvoda along…

Vlastimil Brodský was a Czech actor and one of the most prominent figures of 20th-century Czech film and theatre. He was known for both comedic and dramatic roles, including collaborations with director Jiří Menzel. He appeared in the film Farářův konec (1968, dir. Evald Schorm).