"a film based on B. Hrabal's novel" "CUTTING IT SHORT" "Starring and Featuring" "Film Editor" "Sound Editor" "Set Designer" "Chief of Production Team" "Director of Photography" "Directed by" "Feeling weak and pale." "Down a pint of ale!" "I have something for you." "Look for it!" "Cold..." "Warmer!" "Hot!" "With my patent needle threader" "I shall never miss the smallest eye!" "Good piggy..." "Don't be scared, Louie... you'll make a lovely pair of hams!" "Now the heart." ", There's sufficient malt we even sell it." "The barley is mealy and five crowns cheaper" "than last year." "Mind you economise." "Order is the main thing." "And decency." "Here we leave the malt to mellow." "Well, Doctor." "I can smell pork!" "We stocked up well on ice in season." "But this is May, too warm to stick a pig!" "It broke its leg." "As manager you must try your best." "As the board of directors - we could give you the sack." "Pepper, salt..." "Marjoram..." "Thyme..." "Ginger..." "No, this is no cake." "We replaced the boiling sieves." "If our beer's so good, why not produce more." "Right, we'll boil a lot overnight." "You'll smoke conserve the meat." "What my wife doesn't eat goes into the ice-box." ", The beer is mellow particularly the lager." "I shall deliver it to pubs with large cold cellars," "so that our beer wins a good reputation." "Mind you, our beer always had a good reputation!" "Before the new brewer came all it was good for was against constipation." "We need two more fermentation tubs to increase our beer production." "That's enough, we'll finish in the board-room." "I also propose increasing the barrel manufacture.." "Where were you, Martin." "Stay here and stoke up!" "Now the sausages." ", Whatever the beer's like I insist on order." "And decency!" ", Leave the coal as it is so people can see se can afford it." "You must try harder!" "What a fragrance!" "Help yourselves!" "May I invite the gentlemen to a pork-feast." "We could finish our meeting tomorrow." "An angel's flown by!" "My, I'm fair bloated!" "The amount I've put away!" "A full plate of soup." "A fairy-tale meal!" "Five sausages, more meat... and a cold sausage on top." "I bow to your culinary expertise." "A beautiful, relaxed afternoon." "But I have two women in labour and one with a gall-bladder attack." "You must try harder." "You must do your best!" "They're all drones." "I have something for you." "What is it." "Our chest expander will strengthen you muscles." "You too will be strong as a tiger." "Our chest expander for the whole family." "I fell asleep with the rosy image" "of two steaks for breakfast." "All Francin ever has is lukewarm coffee and a slice of dry bread." "Francin's muscles are as magnificent as the gladiator's on the chest-expander lid, but the poor man sees himself as a skinned rabbit." "What happened." "Peppin." "My brother-in-law, at last!" "I was apprenticed as shop-assistant, dreamt of attending business-school." "Peppin is a cobbler, but all he ever did was shout." "I sent home money so he wouldn't come here and shout the place down." "Who are you woman." "Sister-in-law." "Welcome, brother-in-law!" "I've come to stay for two weeks and you're out flat!" "Help yourself!" "I've lost my appetite, been feeling poorly." "They all send their greetings except for Bochalena," "She's had it for good, some trickster slipped some gunpowder into a log," "the old with stoked up her fire and it blew her up." "How's your wife." "Fancy-free, that's me." "The priest broke his hip-bone, uncle Zavicak was tiling the church spire" ", and crashed down but straight into, the linden-tree" "so nothing happened to him and the priest ran,down to bless him" "missed his footings and off he went to hospital." "Isn't this something." "I'll mend all your shoes for you." "I'm a professionalist!" "This is the Parisian style, this here the instep." "This is the heel, see." "If you want to practice cobbling, you've got to have a diploma." "I'll teach you all I know in the two weeks I'm staying." "Two weeks." "Two years..." "Most likely a life sentence." "I'm making apple strudel!" "Your sausages are damn good, pity I'm feeling so poorly." "I made shoes for a guy who was "Shoemaker to the Court"" "and he delivered his ware..." "By bike." "Bullshit." "Had the Emperor seen him on a bike he'd have taken away..." "That bike." "Oh, balls!" "The title with the eagle!" "As you see, we are highly active." "We have improved the quality by using first-class raw-materials." "I use my motorcycle to drive round inns" "and gather new contracts." "...his little girl kept hitting her head so he padded all the corners" "but then he opened the door with such force he hit her himself." "SO he padded his little girl's forehead instead." "Uncle Method read an advert:" "Are you bored." "Buy a racoon!" "So he ordered one." ", Like a kid it was had to look into everything," "looked into Uncle's clock and his three pocket-watches and they're a gonner." "I wrote up these..." "But when uncle kissed aunt the racoon wanted some too!" "We could have them printed," "I'd take them round the inns on my business trips by Laurin Klement motorcycle." "Day by day your thirst renew with our ale we freshly brew." "Who's that yelling." "My brother's on a visit." "Go and tell him to stop it." "This is our brewery!" "Tell him to do his hollering out in the fields!" "...the racoon got bored, and mucked up all the bedding." "Uncle Method wrote an advert:" "Are you bored." "Buy a racoon." "Why are you two shouting." ", It's not me it's somebody inside me." "For mercy's sake, stop." "You endanger my position." "Want me to go back to accounting." "You should be with the police, you're so clever!" "No fear." "Uncle Adolf was a cop, one day he chase a guy." "The guy jumped out of the window into a cesspool." "Please continue." "The hop-growers are competitive." "Driving my Laurin Klement cycle I could interview them personally." "They wouldn't let him" "ride in the police car, he stank to high heave," "he took the suit to the cleaner's..." "We shall resume the meeting in half an hour." "Ask the accountant for a basin of warm water." "You've turned our meeting into a Charlie Chaplin act starring Lupino Lane!" "...she screamed at him:" "You've shit your trousers so wash them yourself!" "What is this muck." "The best glue in the world, made in Vienna." "Thanks a lot, brother." "Uncle Adolf was unlucky." "One day he got drunk with a couple of dentists" "and they pulled out each other's front teeth." "Uncle Adolf's too." "How unlucky." "What if they had been vets who castrate bulls!" "So he was lucky." "An insurance clerk had his son's school-fees to pay." "Soon came complaints, people weren't getting their sick-pay." "The insurance guy had pocketed it." "So he took his scythe, drank a bottle of rum and cut his throat." "These days life is easier." "Husbands and wives take turns hanging themselves like the cobbler who thieved at night," "his wife couldn't steal at all so he hanged himself for shame." "Gone is all our love enough to make you weep nothing left at all all drowned in the deep..." "Depends if it's real passion, though." "One woman has twelve children and the other nothing - even were she to bed a brewery chimney." "I'm going to sing!" "What will you have for breakfast." "Tea, coffee, milk, or beer." "Rum!" "Every woman has a tendency to evil." "God morning." "What were we talking about." "Women." "Woman is the only good we have in he world." "fashionable COlFFURES" "Come back tomorrow." "We can't have this!" "The beer is tepid, the pipes unwashed, not to mention the glasses." "We shall not renew the contract." "Look at this beauty!" "See this froth." "It isn't froth but whipped cream!" "It isn't cream, it's..." "It's not cold enough." "Azure, the colour of summer." "Ah, the scent of camomile" "This fountain and that lady's hair are the pride of our town." "How dare you." "Not cool enough, lm telling you." "This is our hotel." "We are the Board of Directors." "Good morning, gentlemen!" "Hello, dear." "When will you be home." "I don't know." "Permit me to drink to the beauty of your hair!" "To your culinary art!" "Dear lady, have one with us!" "Your Health!" "Good." "But not cold enough." "Good-bye." "We'll make you a lovable creature with a golden collar round your neck," "they'll be wild to see you dance..." "Just perfect!" "My heart is a beehive abuzz with pretty girls..." "What can I do." "Nothing." "Wait till I run out of gas." "I've brought you something." "Look for it!" "Cold..." "Beautiful..." "What is it for." "Put the light out." "Now Peppin can scream blue murder." "These sparks give new joy, new life." "This purple ozone will take away your longing to do in public the things other people hardly dare think about." "Well, here I am!" "Shut the door!" "This is good for your nerves." "We shall do it every day." "We shall do it every night." "Nifty!" "Like a peep-show on sexual hygiene!" "I bet you are hungry." "My boss had a daughter, Mary" "A belly like a chamber-pot, bust like Maria Theressa." "One night they said to me:" "You're sleeping here." "Come morning Mary touched me and put those tits on my chest and I jumped up and split my head open on the stove." "The family jumped off their beds happy there'd be a wedding." ", I wouldn't have it pretended to be weak in the chest." "She married a guy called Jetrutka." ", A drunkard he was every time he sneezed he got Mary pregnant." "Right foot forwards, shoulders back." "This is the barrel." "Beer barrel." "You're soft in the head." "If you said that to the Captain he'd hit you with his sword." "Attention!" "For offending the greatest army - the Austrian!" "What are you yelling about now." "We're playing at soldiers." "Meaning drill." "play at what you like, but not here." "Where are we to play." "On top of the chimney for all I care." "But quietly!" "The chimney." "The chimney." "Frayed nerves he has." "Should splash his private parts with warm water." "After you." "The chimney, he said." "This would make a great command-post!" "Or outlook tower." "Bullshit!" ", That's for civilians a command post's for soldiers." "intelligent beauty though you are, if the Captain heard you he'd hit you with his sword and shout:" "I'll hack your cock off!" "But he wouldn't hack my cock off," ", he liked me I carried his sword." "I was his best soldier." "is it true that in the army you grazed goats." "Who said that." "The tobacconist." "He was a Captain in the war and watched you through binoculars." "Tobacconists couldn't be Captains, the Emperor wouldn't have it" "A wounded soldier became a tobacconist but a tobacconist couldn't become a Captain." "Forwards, men!" "Are you dizzy." "Horribly dizzy!" ", In the name of the law climb down." "After you." "I'll go down inside, as drill." "Are you bored." "Buy a racoon." "You deserve a spanking." "On my bare bottom." "On your bare bottom." "It must have been wonderful up there." "Yes, it was dangerous, what's dangerous is great." "Austrian soldier triumphs again." "is that your brother, the shouter." "That's me." "What's his trade." "Cobbler and brewery worker." "Give him a job." "For shouters work is the best antidote." "The operation is over." "Drive off!" "We are a voluntary fire brigade, not an American comedy" "with Lupino Lane." "We shall send you the bill!" "It must have been wonderful up there!" "His nerves are damned frayed..." "The music will revive your vital organism." "When I did this, with Miss Asta the dragoons screamed for more brandy!" "My foot!" "We must call the Doctor." "What a disaster." "What have you been up to now." "If she doesn't stay in bed she'll be on crutches for life" "in a wheelchair." "Can you forgive me." "You were sent to me by heaven." "What else does in the fodder." "Crush the potatoes with bran." "I must take your temperature, you coughed last night." "38.6 - that's a fever." "A cold compress, so your lungs don't get stuck to your pleura." "That could mean pneumonia." "Now he can hope to have me in a wheelchair." "He'd be the happiest of husbands." "Now he has me where he wants me immobile and helpless." "Do you have a minute." "Of course, you're an invalid" "Go down to the cellar and turn the pieces of meat" "curing in the brine." "You know I have a horror of meat." "You'd have me in a wheelchair remember lm an invalid." "I'll go at once, my love." "Ugh, garlic." "I have something for you." "What." "Shut your eyes!" "Yes." "Are they shut." "You won't peep." "No." "Now." "Now." "It's beautiful!" "Like it." "Yes." "Who bought it for you." "Francin." "And who is that." "You." "And who am I." "I am your...." "My hubby." "What more could I wish for." ", I feel fine my wife's an invalid and brother Peppin has stopped shouting." "Who says lm losing my voice." "Are the canals clean." "Peppin will go and clean them there he can be,low as he likes" ", but not in German all our board-members are patriots." "Why not be happy" "if God gives us health..." "Miss Pauline stood up" "but they would hardly have kissed" "had the good lady not given them a push." "Martin felt the electric shock of the girl's breasts against his chest." "Well, Here I am." "We're overjoyed." "Old Bochalena had a vision that a horse with burning mane" "flew over our town." "She said: this means war." "And war it was." "And last year the child Jesus flew" "above the town square." "You see little Lolan grazed his sheep and an aeroplane flew past," "dragging a rope which twisted round Lolan's foot and Lolan pretty child that h' e was, platinum hair and all, was up there in the sky and then got caught" "in that old linden tree by the church and as he fell he asked:" "Where is my flock." "The women begged him to bless them..." "Her mother went into the kitchen to allow the young people" "a tender farewell." "Excuse me, a cold." "These night-time confinements." "I shall listen to your lungs." "Breathe deeply." "Those who drink, die." "But who drinks our lager won't want to die!" "A common cold, that's all." "Three pills a day." "God bless." "My husband bought me a therapeutic fulguration apparatus." "There's a cathode, e pipe for colds eucalyptus oil, fragrant pine-wood... I'd sure like to see this box of tricks!" "I shall place the ozone inhaler in your nose, but you must lie down." "Do you feel the neon rays." "How poetic." "Ozone - the scent of summer storms." "Blue is your colour, mine too." "Yes, and fragrant pinewood." "What are you doing." "Where is this oil with the pine-wood fragrance." "Damn you woman, should be diluted 1:10!" "Can you forgive me." "Were I not the brewery chairman," "I would wish to be the manager." "It was a poetic afternoon." "As rehabilitation l recommend cycling." "New times are here." "Everything is short," "I've cropped my stallion's tail." "You've cut it!" "And I trimmed my moustache." "Beautiful!" "This invention shortens distances between people." "In a year or two this invention will be in very family." "People will listen to the news" "not only from Prague," "even from Brno or - not wanting to exaggerate " "from as far as Paris!" "Shorten them!" "Great we'll shorten everything!" "Time, distance." "We'll make short work of it" "We'll cut it all short - it's shearing time!" "lm afraid this apparatus will not bring people happiness." "What we mustn't cut short is our common sense." "Lucky somebody's got some!" "Mustn't cut people's rights though!" "Don't talk that way, or they'll give you the sack!" "They can't - because of our organisation." "We hereby cut ourselves off from old Austria." "You have a motor-cycle" ", of Czech make now we bought a Czech truck" "Horses belong to the past." "This truck replaces two pairs of horses and will speed up deliveries." "Our horses will be off to the slaughter-house." "Our truck will shorten the distance to village inns." "Like a death in the family." "Take three days off." "Cut it off!" "Like this." "No!" ", I want it short like Josephine Baker's" "No!" "Now some proposals for further improvements." "Gentlemen!" "We shall shorten the distance to the cellars." "We are shortening the working-day." "And cutting your pay accordingly." "Now." "Now." "You're a magician!" "I feel so light!" "They've cut off the tails of three dogs!" "She's shorten her hair!" "And cut her skirt!" "A woman's bare knee is a Temple of the Holy Ghost." "The brewery is prospering, but... lt costs a lot of money." "These newfangled improvements." "Any goulash going." "Mind we don't replace you!" "My wife complained you didn't recognise her." "Good afternoon." "Where is your hair." "Here." "My tyres don't need pumping." "The pump works." "I bought this pump at Runka's Store." "Now we'll begin a new life." "Yes." "I think we'll give you another chance." "I have something for you." "Look for it!" "Cold..." "Warmer..." "Hot!" "Here - lm carrying a budding author for you!" "With" "Properties" "Costume Designer" "Wardrobe 2nd Unit Director" "Continuity" "Assistants to Chief of Production" "Cameraman" "Make-up" "Sound Editor" "Film Editor" "Music by" "Played by" "Produced at" "THE END"