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
Marie Štrampachová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
On the Trail of Blood (1969)
The Girl on the Broomstick (1971)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Alois Vachek
Best movies:
Witchhammer (1969)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Larks on a String (1969)
Blažena Vernerová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Incredibly Sad Princess (1968)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Svatej z Krejcárku (1969)
Václav Volk
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Four in a Circle (1967)
Milan Udržal
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
J. Šubrt
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover (1955)
Helena Živná
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Žofie Futerová
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Družina černého pera (1973)
Regina Rázlová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ikaros' Fall (1977) (TV movie)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Kolya (1996)
Hana Talpová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
Larks on a String (1969)
Dařbuján a Pandrhola (1959)
Jindřich Narenta
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
The Cremator (1968)
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Jan Přeučil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Muž v pozadí (1995) (series)
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1970)
Nina Divíšková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Příběhy obyčejného šílenství (2009) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Podivné odpoledne Dr. Zvonka Burkeho (1991) (theatrical recording)