Director Antonín Kachlík’s 1976 nostalgic comedy is set in the 1950s in a Moravian winemaking village. Like in Václav Vorlíček’s “Wine” trilogy, made around the same time, the village seems like an idyllic place, but an ideological struggle is brewing beneath the pastoral veneer. Old countryman Josef is a seasoned winemaker whose everyday reality is interspersed with vivid memories. Unlike his son Petr (Oldřich Vykypěl), Josef realises the importance of joining the new state cooperative, just as he knows that his grandson (Svatopluk Skopal) must leave his hometown and go to medical school. Bohuš Záhorský, who was 70 at the time, stars as the 96-year-old protagonist with a passion for collectivisation.
Grandpa Josef is ninety-six-years old. He and his wife have brought up seven children and he often remembers the happy and sad moments of their lives together. It is the Vintage of 1949: Josef must testify before a court where Šantala stands accused for the murder of his father. Easter Sunday: How grandpa took the boys in. Josef helps the boys steal the maypole but they have to give him half of their winnings - thirty litres of wine. A hunt: Huntsmen celebrate a successful hunt in a pub where the old man's grandson is being accepted as a member of the Hubert Guild. Christmas: Josef recalls a Christmas when he worked as a coachman for a baron and his master fell into a fishpond during a coach race. New Year's Eve: Celfótr dreams of becoming a verger. Josef gets the incumbent verger so drunk for the New Year's Eve that the man cannot perform his duties at the church, and so Celfótr's dream comes true. Early spring: A co-operative is being founded in the village. Josef's son Petr is against the idea. Spring: The old man's wife Anna is frail. He wants to make her chicken soup, but Anna dies before he finishes cooking. Hay Harvest: Members of the newly founded co-operative work together, only Petr harvests alone. Josef and his friends come along to help. Holy Warriors: Seeing a procession, the village youth take off their clothes imitating the Hussite early nudist Adamite movement and get onto a roof to everybody's total embarrassment. One day the old man says goodbye to his grandson, a medical student. He reminds the young man not to forget that he comes from a family of simple folk.
As a result of actor Ladislav Pešek´s illness, the role of Celfótr was recast by Vladimír Hlavatý.
děda Josef
švec Jan Pokorný zvaný Prťák
Chroust, bývalý obecní policajt
Frantina Oujezdský zvaný Šantala
Francek, syn Oujezdského
Huňáček zvaný Celfótr
Josefův vnuk
Anna, Josefova žena
Petr, Josefův nejstarší syn
Vejmelka zvaný Trdlifaj
Kvasnička
Psota
hostinský Bekiš
Bekišova žena
lesmistr Marek
Lojza
statkář Cetl
Voice by Jaroslav Vágner
děkan Kudláček
Zlámalka
baron
farář
dr. Pátek
regenschori
žena regenschoriho
nuzačka
komorník Fricek
Ivan
Emánek Cepeš
Cepeška
vdova
kramář Čejka
kostelník Vincek Kubiš
soudce
starosta Dunděra
příslušník SNB Cancour
Cancourka
kovář
myslivec Maděrič
starý myslivec/sedlák
učitel Vranka
Vondráček
Hejda
první stárek Milín, vnuk dědy Josefa
stárková
Olin
Bláža
Pepča
Zlámal
Borek
tlustý Kulis
Bogan
Eda
Zuzák
kostelník Šaňo/člen kapely
Máňa
Kódl
Tučný
Vinda
Andula, Kulisova žena
Tonka/poštmistrová
muž nesoucí baldachýn/člen kapely
Francek Vatling
Pán Bůh
Petra
matka
otec
lovec
lovec
lovec
lovec
lovec
lovec/dubl za Bohuše Záhorského
členka panstva/babka
členka panstva/babka
členka panstva/babka
členka panstva/babka
člen panstva
člen panstva
člen panstva
člen panstva
člen panstva
mladý sedlák
mladý sedlák
sedlák
okresní tajemník
advokát
společnice/slečinka
společnice/slečinka
společnice/slečinka
muzikant
muzikant
muzikant
muzikant s bubnem
muzikant
muzikant
muzikant
opilec
opilec
opilec
ministrant
ministrant
kočí
Honzík
harmonikář
praktikant
žena v publiku u soudu
Roman Pavlíček, Jarmila Čajová
Jaroslav Matějka (Náš dědek Josef – román)
Karel Kočí, Stanislav Krejča
Jana Fischerová
Helena Matušková (klapka), Miloslav Mirvald (fotograf)
Georges Bizet (Carmen /Toreadore smělý/)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Singer sbor
Song Composer Ludvík Dietrich
Writer of Lyrics Václav Hanka
Singer Bohuš ZáhorskýFrantišek FilipovskýMiroslav HomolaVladimír Hlavatý
Singer sbor
Singer sbor
Song Composer Alois Jelen
Singer sbor
Náš dědek Josef
Náš dědek Josef
Old Man Joe
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1976
1976
withdrawal from distribution 30 June 1990
festival premiere 16 June 1977 (28. filmový festival pracujících – léto ´77)
premiere 23 September 1977 /suitable for youths/
Dramaturgická skupina Miloše Brože, Miloš Brož (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
feature film
105 min
2 925 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: 28. filmový festival pracujících – léto '77
1977
52 měst / Czechoslovakia
Josef Illík
Festival: 28. filmový festival pracujících – léto '77
1977
52 měst / Czechoslovakia
Bohuš Záhorský
Festival: 28. filmový festival pracujících – léto '77
1977
52 měst / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 15. festival českých a slovenských filmů Bratislava
1977
Bratislava / Czechoslovakia
Bohuš Záhorský
Event: Výroční ceny Československého spisovatele
1974
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Matějka