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Cutting It Short (1981)

Cutting It Short (1981)

Comedy
Release Date: 1981, February 6
Directors: Jiří Menzel
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast: Pavel Trávníček, Václav Knop, Miroslav Donutil, Rudolf Hrušínský, Jiří Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Oldřich Vlach, Magda Vášáryová, Tomáš Töpfer, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, František Řehák, Pavel Vondruška

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book 1920s