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
František Husák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Leoš Suchařípa
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Larks on a String (1969)
Věra Ferbasová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
I Dutifully Report (1957)
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
Today for the Last Time (1958)
Nina Bártů
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
The Jester and the Queen (1987)
The Forgery (1957)
František Holar
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Witchhammer (1969)
The Emperor's Baker - The Baker's Emperor (1951)
Láska jako trám (1967) (TV movie)
Libor Fára
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Martyrs of Love (1966)
Karel Mareš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Larks on a String (1969)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
The Party and the Guests (1966)
Miroslav Homola
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961)
Josef Kořán
Italy
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
The Great Unknown (1970)
Miloš Hlaváč
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Karel Vašíček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Ear (1970)
Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Daniela Šrajerová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1988)
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Marta Krásová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Rusalka (1960) (TV movie)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Muž, který stoupl v ceně (1967)
Jindřiška Gabriela Preissová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Witchhammer (1969)
Larks on a String (1969)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Dagmar Rosíková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Vladimír Hrabánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Semafor - Největší hity (2005) (video compilation)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
František Kubíček
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Cremator (1968)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Jindřich Bonaventura
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
All My Compatriots (1968)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Bohuslav Kupšovský
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
The Creation of the World (1957)
Jan Kubečka
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)