Explore Movies TV Shows Live TV

Cutting It Short

7.1

1981•1h 33m

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.

Production

Production

Cast

Photo of Magda Vášáryová

Magda Vášáryová

Maryška

Photo of Jiří Schmitzer

Jiří Schmitzer

správce pivovaru Francin, Maryščin muž

Photo of Jaromír Hanzlík

Jaromír Hanzlík

Pepin, Francinův bratr

Photo of Rudolf Hrušínský

Rudolf Hrušínský

MUDr. Gruntorád, předseda správní rady pivovaru

Photo of Petr Čepek

Petr Čepek

mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady

Photo of Oldřich Vlach

Oldřich Vlach

hoteliér Růžička

Photo of František Řehák

František Řehák

statkář Vejvoda

Photo of Pavel Vondruška

Pavel Vondruška

notář Lustig

Photo of Rudolf Hrušínský

Rudolf Hrušínský

sladovník v pivovaře

Photo of Oldřich Vízner

Oldřich Vízner

kadeřník Boďa Červinka

Photo of Miroslav Donutil

Miroslav Donutil

kočí Martin

Photo of Jaroslav Vozáb

Jaroslav Vozáb

děkan

Photo of Zdeněk Podskalský

Zdeněk Podskalský

měšťan

Photo of Václav Kotva

Václav Kotva

kočí kravského potahu

Photo of Jan Hraběta

Jan Hraběta

hostinský

Photo of Jaroslava Kretschmerová

Jaroslava Kretschmerová

slečna účetní

Photo of Václav Knop

Václav Knop

Sladovník

Photo of Tomáš Töpfer

Tomáš Töpfer

sladovník

Photo of Pavel Trávníček

Pavel Trávníček

Man with Beer (voice)

More Like This

Backdrop for The Cremator

78% Match1969HD

The Cremator

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

Backdrop for Satantango

81% Match1994HD

Satantango

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Backdrop for National Street

60% Match2019HD

National Street

Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood...

Backdrop for Attention, Rounds!

61% Match1982HD

Attention, Rounds!

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Backdrop for Fool's Gold

60% Match2008HD

Fool's Gold

Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When he finds a vital clue that may finally pinpoint the treasure's whereabouts, he drags Tess and her boss, billionaire Nigel Honeycutt, along on the hunt. But Finn is not the only one interested in the gold; his former mentor-turned-enemy Moe Fitch, hired by rapper-turned-gangster Bigg Bunny, will stop at nothing to beat him to it.

Backdrop for Due Date

64% Match2010HD

Due Date

Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.

Backdrop for Terminator Salvation

61% Match2009HD

Terminator Salvation

All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.

Backdrop for Dead Poets Society

83% Match1989HD

Dead Poets Society

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Backdrop for The Shawshank Redemption

87% Match1994HD

The Shawshank Redemption

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Backdrop for Oppenheimer

80% Match2023HD

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Backdrop for Pulp Fiction

85% Match1994HD

Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Backdrop for Julieta

70% Match2016HD

Julieta

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

Backdrop for Joker

81% Match2019HD

Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Backdrop for 12 Angry Men

86% Match1957HD

12 Angry Men

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Backdrop for Buffalo '66

71% Match1998HD

Buffalo '66

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

Backdrop for Shutter Island

82% Match2010HD

Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Backdrop for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

74% Match1992HD

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

Backdrop for Parasite

85% Match2019HD

Parasite

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Backdrop for Titanic

79% Match1997HD

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Backdrop for Sorry We Missed You

73% Match2019HD

Sorry We Missed You

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

Reviews

No reviews available yet.