The second half of the 1970s brought dramatic changes for Ondřej Havelka: he began to sing in the Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra, he left Ypsilon Studio and he began to study opera directing at JAMU in Brno. The year of 1977, meanwhile, saw Havelka make his silver screen debut. He took the leading role of an idealistic young man, Karel, who accepts a job as a tractor driver in a small village. But he fails to find the good and just people he longs to encounter, even among the down-to-earth residents of this idyllic settlement… This comedy, which unfolds during the harvesting season, is director Július Matula’s second feature. Markéta Fišerová stars as the hero’s country girl love interest, co-operative bookkeeper Hanka. Svatopluk Skopal plays her existing boyfriend, rogue tractor driver Venca.
The young man Karel is very sensitive and he takes any injustice and any bad conduct very hard. But he cannot face up negative situations. Always he better leaves his job and finds another one in hope it will be better somewhere else. One day he finds himself in a small village just before the harvest-time. Karel gets a job here as a tractor driver and soon he meets all citizens. He likes the accountant Hanka, a girlfriend of the tractor driver Venca. Both young men are rivals at work, but soon the rivalry grows into hostility. Hanka starts to prefer the kind Karel instead of the ill-mannered Venca. After some time Karel decides to marry Hanka and to settle in the village. But the jealous Venca does not want to give the girl up. First he damages a motor in Karel's tractor. Later, when he is drunk he attacks Karel on a harvest feast and he beats him up in front of everybody. The humiliated Karel wants to leave the village with Hanka. He wants to find a place where people are good and just. She turns his offer down. She knows that people are everywhere the same and that everybody has to fight for his place in society himself. Karel leaves, but perhaps the next summer will be different and he might come back.
Karel Kubát
účetní Hanka
předseda JZD Cyril Janulík
Janulíkova žena
Matějka
Hovorka
traktorista Venca, Hančin chlapec
pytlák Petr
Franta
Prokeš
Drobek
Soukup
mechanik Matouš
hospodský Béda Zemánek
Zemánkova žena
řeznice Alžběta
nadpraporčík VB Vojtěch Šafránek
Lojza
Hančina matka
vrchní číšníce
muž v havarovaném autě
žena v havarovaném autě
úřednice Lenka
řidič nabízející pomoc
Josef Sandr
Jitka Hoferková, Věra Vláčilová
Vladimír Tišer, Karel Prchal
Václav Veruněk
Kateřina Koňasová, Jiří Kučera, Eva Horázná, Eva Lackingerová, Petr Bárta
Studio OPUS Bratislava
Dežo Ursiny (Studio OPUS Bratislava)
Ej, vy páni, vy, Život je jen náhoda, Učitelka tanca, Kdyby to tak bylo možný (Slow-fox), Zdická polka /Ty máš kukadla/, Byla noc krásná májová
Dežo Ursiny, lidová píseň (Ej, vy páni, vy), Jaroslav Ježek (Život je jen náhoda), Pavol Hammel (Učitelka tanca), Josef Stelibský (Kdyby to tak bylo možný), Josef Poncar (Zdická polka /Ty máš kukadla/)
Pavel Kopta, lidová píseň (Ej, vy páni, vy), Jaroslav Mottl (Kdyby to tak bylo možný), Karel Melíšek (Ej, vy páni, vy)
Dežo Ursiny, sbor (Ej, vy páni, vy), Ondřej Havelka (Kdyby to tak bylo možný)
Řeknem si to příští léto
Let’s Talk about It Next Summer
Strniště / Bez klobouku bos
film
feature
narrative
Czechoslovakia
1977
1977
12 May 1978
long
82 min
Czech