Cutting It Short

Cutting It Short
Cutting It Short
Directed by Jiří Menzel
Written by Jiří Menzel
Bohumil Hrabal
Cinematography Jaromír Šofr
Editing by Jiří Brožek
Release date(s) Czechoslovakia:
1 February 1981
United States:
October 1983
Running time 93 minutes
Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech
Budget 4,000,000 koruna

Cutting It Short (Czech: Postřižiny) is a 1980 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel. It is based on the novel Postřižiny by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. The story is set in a brewery in a Czech small town.[1]

Theodor Pištěk designed the costumes for the film.

Cast

  • Magda Vášáryová as Maryška
  • Jiří Schmitzer as Francin
  • Jaromír Hanzlík as Pepin
  • Rudolf Hrušínský (II) as Dr. Gruntorád
  • Petr Čepek as Pán de Giogi
  • Oldřich Vlach as Ruzicka
  • František Řehák as Vejvoda
  • Miloslav Štibich as Bernádek
  • Alois Liškutín as Sefl
  • Pavel Vondruška as Lustig
  • Rudolf Hrušínský (III) as stable boy
  • Miroslav Donutil as scrub
  • Oldřich Vízner as Doda Cervinka

References

  1. ^ Entry on Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (in Czech)

External links

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Closely Watched Trains · Crime in a Music Hall · Capricious Summer · Larks on a String · Who Looks for Gold? · Seclusion Near a Forest · Those Wonderful Movie Cranks · Cutting It Short · The Snowdrop Festival · Chocolate Cop · My Sweet Little Village · End of Old Times · Beggar's Opera · The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin · I Served the King of England

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