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Traps (1998)
Director: Vera Chytilová
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Gender questions thread through all Chytilová's work, albeit posed in widely differing ways. Here the rape of a vet, Lenka (Stivinová), by two men (Donutil and Hanák) prompts a revenge enquiry by both 'victim' and film-maker on the structures and mindsets that condone such a violation. Yet the director's approach is at once both tragic and comic. Commerce, careerism, new economy excess and satirical/allegorical informants all play their part, but it's the cutting edge of the vet's response that anchors the gaudy darkness of Chytilová's vision.Author: GE
Cast & crew
Director: Vera Chytilová
Producer: Viktor Schwarz
Cast: Miroslav Donutil, Dasa Blahova, Zuzana Stivinová, Tomas Hanák, Daniela Trebická, Katerina Hajná, Eva Holubová, David Vavra, Lubos Svoboda full cast
Duration: 124 mins
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