Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) Prípad pro zacínajícího kata
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)
DVDRip | MKV | 702x572 | x264 @ 1958 Kbps | 101 min | 1,53 Gb
Audio: Czech AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
DVDRip | MKV | 702x572 | x264 @ 1958 Kbps | 101 min | 1,53 Gb
Audio: Czech AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
Director: Pavel Jurácek
Writers: Pavel Jurácek, Jonathan Swift (novel)
Stars: Lubomír Kostelka, Klára Jerneková, Milena Zahrynowska
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Made during the '68 crisis, this allegorical satire updates Swift (Gulliver's travels to Laputa and Balnibarbi) and Lewis Carroll, presenting an episodic account of the 35-year-old hero's nightmare journey to a world which he encounters on the other side of a road tunnel. No surprise to discover that it's very much like contemporary Czechoslovakia. Here is absurdity, transgression, jet-black comedy and the unexplained. Shot using graphic inserts, split images, slo-mo and fish-eye lenses, it recreates the mood of Kafka-esque paranoia that writer/director Jurácek had used more directly in his earlier Joseph Kilián. If its abundant allusions and cross-references are difficult to decipher for the uninitiated, the Czech censors had no such problems - they promptly banned it for 20 years.
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Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) Prípad pro zacínajícího kata
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