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)
(more)Cast
Martin Kostelka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Milena Kleinerová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
The Hangman Can't Wait (1971) (TV movie)
Pohádka o drakovi (1972) (TV movie)
Petr Hapka
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
The Ninth Heart (1978)
Okurkový hrdina (1963)
Vratislav Blažek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Green Gold (1964)
René Gabzdyl
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Amadeus (1984)
The Three Veterans (1983)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Alois Čuřík
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Courage for Every Day (1964)
Transport from Paradise (1962)
Ladislav Jakim
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Black Peter (1963)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Why? (1987)
Karel Engel
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Waiter, Scarper! (1980)
Lemonade Joe (1964)
Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
Karel Bodnár
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
A Night at Karlstein (1973)
Marie Grófová
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Antonín Klepáč
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Beauty and the Beast (1978)
Those Wonderful Men with a Crank (1978)
Emil Iserle
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Miloslav Horáček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
The Last Butterfly (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1978)
Antonín Klimeš
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Incredibly Sad Princess (1968)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Dnes neordinuji (1948)
Miroslav Laňka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Passing Through a Thick Forest (1963)
Kam doskáče ranní ptáče (1987)
Jan Maška
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Happy End (1967)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Viktor Očásek
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Lemonade Joe (1964)
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Happy End (1967)
Eduard Pavlíček
Austria
Best movies:
Kočičí hra (1982) (theatrical recording)
Naši furianti (1983) (theatrical recording)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Jiří Ptáčník
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Muž v pozadí (1995) (series)
The Night of the Decision (1993) (TV movie)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Karel Svoboda
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Good Soldier Schweik 2: Beg to Report, Sir (1957)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Capek's Tales (1947)