Seclusion Near a Forest

Seclusion Near a Forest
Directed by	Jiří Menzel
Written by	Ladislav Smoljak Zdeněk Svěrák
Starring	Josef Kemr Zdeněk Svěrák Daniela Kolářová Marie Hradilková Martin Hradilek Ladislav Smoljak Naďa Urbánková Jan Tříska Václav Trégl Míla Myslíková Vlastimil Brodský Jaroslav Weigel
Music by	Jiří Šust
Cinematography	Jaromír Šofr
Release date(s)	1 September 1976
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Seclusion Near a Forest (Czech: Na samotě u lesa) is a 1976 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel. Filming took place near Radešice (the summerhouse scenes) and in Svatý Jan (the funeral and the bar fight).

Plot

An ordinary Prague family, the Lavičkovýs, yearns to have a house in the countryside. They make a deal with the charismatic old Mr Komárek (Josef Kemr) that they will rent part of his summerhouse and that he will live there until spring, and then move to his son in Slovakia and sell the house to them. As time goes by, however, he does not appear to be preparing for his leave, and while Věra Lavičková tries to get her husband, Oldřich, to remind Mr Komárek about their deal, Oldřich is not up to it and is instead making friends with the good-natured old man.

External links

• Seclusion Near a Forest at the Internet Movie Database
• Seclusion Near a Forest at the Czechoslovak movie database (in Czech)
• Seclusion Near a Forest at České filmové nebe (in Czech)
• Seclusion Near a Forest at Filmová místa (in Czech)