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Directed by:
Pavel JuráčekScreenplay:
Pavel JuráčekCinematography:
Jan KališComposer:
Luboš FišerCast:
Lubomír Kostelka, Klára Jerneková, Slávka Budínová, Milena Zahrynowská, Pavel Landovský, Miroslav Macháček, Radovan Lukavský, Nataša Gollová, Jiří Hálek (more)Plots(1)
A man becomes lost on a country road and finds himself in an alternative, nightmare world that mirrors (then) modern-day Czechoslovakia. Needless to say the film was not warmly received by the authorities, and like his earlier surrealist masterwork Josef Kilián, was promptly 'banned forever'. A free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', Pavel Juráček's film also channels Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka to create one of Czecholsovak cinema's most unique and deeply disturbing works. (Second Run)
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Juráček was primarily a screenwriter, but he also signed as a director for one of the most interesting films in our film history when, in a brief period of creative freedom, he made a clever allegory on the absurdity of life in totalitarian Czechoslovakia based on the famous novel Gulliver's Travels. It is not only a key work by Pavel Juráček, but also the most significant role for actor Lubomír Kostelka. The plot is not crucial, decisive is the atmosphere built on black humor, sarcastic sarcasm, and immense exaggeration. The regime never forgave Juráček for his film, and so this author ended up really bad in the end. If there is a film work in the second half of the 20th century in our country that reflects Kafka's literary style based on absurdity, it is precisely The Case for the Rookie Hangman. Overall impression: 100%.
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A beautiful metaphor of absurd political domination and the fleeting consequences of our own existence, definitely one of the bravest and most formally unconventional films of Czech cinema. No need to add more...
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