Overview
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.
| Actor | Age then | Age now | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 63 | April 13, 1994 (73) | |
 | 35 | 77 | |
 | 49 | October 16, 2022 (88) | |
 | 43 | September 20, 1994 (54) | |
 | 55 | June 22, 1992 (63) | |
 | 40 | 82 | |
 | 37 | 78 | |
| 46 | December 28, 1992 (55) | |
| 53 | May 13, 2013 (82) | |
 | 34 | 75 |