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Case for a Rookie Hangman is a tchecoslovaque film of genre Drama with Slávka Budínová

Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

Případ pro začínajícího kata

Case for a Rookie Hangman
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Length 1h42
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Fantasy
Rating69% 3.4871353.4871353.4871353.4871353.487135

Case for a Rookie Hangman (Czech: Případ pro začínajícího kata) is a Czech drama film directed by Pavel Juráček. It was released in 1970. The movie belongs to the Czech New Wave.

The movie can be classified as a surrealist or absurdist satire, and it is based loosely on the third book of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, but the story is transferred to an early 20th-century world in decay. The movie shows also the influence of Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

The satire is aimed at the Czechoslovakian society, and the movie was soon banned after its release in 1970. That meant also the end of Juráček's career.



^ "a case for the young hangman + late august at the hotel ozone". Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Retrieved 21 September 2013.

^ "The Case for Pavel Jurácek". UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Retrieved 21 September 2013.

^ Pajukallio, Arto (2011-08-10). "Nuoren pyövelin tapaus". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). pp. D 5.

^ Pajukallio, Arto (2011-08-10). "Nuoren pyövelin tapaus". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).

Synopsis

Lemuel Gulliver, après avoir subi un accident de voiture, découvre un lapin mort habillé en homme et lui prend sa montre à gousset. Il se retrouve à Balnibarbi, un pays où tout est mystérieux, survolé par l'île de Laputa. Il assiste à une exécution capitale orchestrée comme un numéro de cirque par un bourreau si gentil.

Actors

Slávka Budínová

(Vilma Seidová)
Jiřina Jirásková

(Tadeášová)
Nataša Gollová

(Costumed Woman (voice))
Vera Ferbasová

(Munodiová)
Petr Hapka

(Klavírista)
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