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A Case for a Rookie Hangman

A Case for a Rookie Hangman

Comedy Drama Fantasy

1970, Movie, 1h 42min

Inspired by “Gulliver’s Travels” and infused with the spirit of Kafka, this darkly surrealist fantasia finds Swift’s Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) plunged through the looking glass into the alternate universe of Balnibarbi, where the paranoid residents live according to the absurdist laws of a shadowy regime and resistance is futile. Shuttling its hapless protagonist through a series of increasingly outlandish, tragicomic set pieces, the second of only two features made by Pavel Juráček—a renegade whose career was effectively squashed by state censors—is among the Czechoslovak New Wave’s most daring commentaries on life under totalitarianism.

Country: Czechia

Director:

Pavel Juráček

Cast:

Jindřich Narenta,

Radovan Lukavský,

Lubomír Kostelka

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