Cutting It Short

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Jiří Menzel

Writers

Miloš Brož, Bohumil Hrabal, Jiří Menzel

Language

Czech

Country

Czechoslovakia

Release date

6 February 1981

Ensemble

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

• Alois Liškutín

  ředitel spořitelny Šefl

• 

  Pavel Vondruška

  notář Lustig

• 

  Rudolf Hrušínský

  sladovník v pivovaře

• 

  Oldřich Vízner

  kadeřník Boďa Červinka