Capricious Summer

Antonín Důra (Rudolf Hrušínský) runs the swimming bath on a Czech river with his wife Katerina (Míla Myslíková), and spends the idle days in the water with a retired major and a canon while the rain keeps coming. Then a travelling conjuror strings a striped pole across the river, and his slim assistant Anna (Jana Preissová) catches Antonín's eye. Jiří Menzel, shooting his first film in colour, lets the wet green of the summer set the pace.