Film

Cutting It Short

1981 · 1h 33m · Comedy

IMDb

7.6

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.

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

Miroslav Donutil

kočí Martin

Josef Vondráček

výčepní

Jaroslav Vozáb

děkan

Zdeněk Podskalský

měšťan

• Jiří MenzelDirector · Screenplay
• Bohumil HrabalScreenplay · Novel
• Jaromír ŠofrDirector of Photography
• Jiří ŠustOriginal Music Composer
• Jiří BrožekEditor

Release date

February 6, 1981

Status

Released

Original language

Czech

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Comedy

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