Directed by:
Dušan HanákCinematography:
Viktor Svoboda st.Composer:
Ladislav GerhardtCast:
Václav Lohniský, Lucyna Winnicka, Josef Abrhám, Miroslav Macháček, František Zvarík, Vladimír Weiser, Emil Horváth st., Viktor Blaho, Jana Švandová (more)Plots(1)
Dušan Hanák's feature debut is one of the key titles of the Czechoslovak New Wave shot in the late 1960s. The main character of the minimalistic, documentary-like story with experimental elements is a cook called Lauko (Václav Lohniský) who is confronted with the imminence of death: he has been diagnosed with throat cancer. In Hanák's metaphoric film language it is the whole society that suffers from the "impossibility to speak". (Summer Film School)
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Hanák's feature film debut impressed to such an extent that it was withdrawn from circulation for two decades shortly after its premiere and awards. Formally it is an ambitious work, alarming in content, yet the musical component is crucial to the viewer's experience, acting as a necessary soothing balm.
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