An Uncertain Season (1988)

Original title

Nejistá sezóna

Directed by

Ladislav Smoljak

Genre

comedy film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small amateur theater company works to get a new play officially approved. The film follows their rehearsals and backstage struggles.

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What happens

An Uncertain Season (Czech: Nejistá sezóna) is a Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák from 1987, which depicts the struggles of a small amateur theatre company as it prepares a new play and tries to get it officially approved. The plot is based on the authentic experiences of the Jára Cimrman Theatre, features its actors and contains real excerpts from his plays, but Cimrman's name does not appear once (at most he is referred to as "The Master"). The entire film takes place in the Solidarita Theatre, the actual location of the Jára Cimrman Theatre at the time. Virtually the entire film was shot without post-synchronous sound. This gives it a documentary character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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