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The film is based on a 1965 novel of the same name by the noted Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, whose work Jiří Menzel had previously adapted to make The Death of Mr. Balthazar, his segment of the anthology film of Hrabal stories Pearls of the Deep (1965).
Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world. Directed by Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, and Jaromil Jireš.
Jun 28, 2022 · At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the...
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Cutting It Short (also released as Shortcuts) (Czech: Postřižiny - literraly: First haircut) 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.
Scholars broadly agree that Menzel lightens Hrabal’s prose in adaptations as well. Jiří Voráč, Peter Hames, and Jonathan Owen point out Menzel’s tendency to leave out Hrabal’s graver elements in movies that markedly subdue the author’s surrealist style (Voráč 22; Hames 47–8; Owen 497).
Jiří Menzel: Closely Watched Trains, 1966 (Czechoslovakia) The film is a small Entwicklungsroman of Miloš’ passage from his mother’s sheltering home into the world.
Jan 4, 2022 · Jiri Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains, the winner the 1967 Oscar Award for Best Foreign-Language Picture, is a lyrical tragicomedy about the attempts of a naive apprentice train-dispatcher at sexual initiation.
