Capricious Summer
1968 · 74 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,676 VOTES · DIR. Jiří Menzel
Overview
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
Dialogue Timeline — 509 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 THIS CHURCH WAS AT ONE TIME THE OBJECT OF MUCH ABUSE HAVING BEEN BUILT BY
00:04:55 Oh no.
00:06:14 if Antonín had not thrashed my suitors got hold of my keys
00:08:23 I offered him everything suitable to curb his vehemence.
00:09:47 Showing off with you teeth or your tongue?
00:11:35 neither with slaughter nor weight-lifting.
00:13:09 You have acquired some logic which is disarming.
00:16:18 He is showing all his limbs
00:17:43 My public ussually shows less appreciation, showering on me
00:19:43 That rascally Ernie has roused the town
00:26:15 want to steal your bath towels and other articles.
00:32:33 to save herself from a shameless rake.
00:34:21 This wench did not come from the wook she came from the caravan.
00:38:03 Counsider it a punishment.
00:40:42 I wonder how Ernie is going to make beds
00:46:06 Isn t he a monk?
00:48:11 Be cheerful, abbé, cheerful!
00:50:17 Books by Shakespeare Rabelais and Cervantes.
00:52:01 I intend to make some coverlets and cushion, Ernie
00:54:04 You should marry her, major I think she is being ill-treated
00:57:09 My companion hates murdeous tumbles as much as blubbering.
00:59:42 Oh, major
01:04:50 Oh, how beatiful...
01:12:16 Production Assistant Production