• Film

A Case for a Young Hangman

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Time Out says

Made during the '68 crisis, this allegorical satire updates Swift (Gulliver's travels to Laputa and Balnibarbi) and Lewis Carroll, presenting an episodic account of the 35-year-old hero's nightmare journey to a world which he encounters on the other side of a road tunnel. No surprise to discover that it's very much like contemporary Czechoslovakia. Here is absurdity, transgression, jet-black comedy and the unexplained. Shot using graphic inserts, split images, slo-mo and fish-eye lenses, it recreates the mood of Kafka-esque paranoia that writer/director Jurácek had used more directly in his earlier Joseph Kilián. If its abundant allusions and cross-references are difficult to decipher for the uninitiated, the Czech censors had no such problems - they promptly banned it for 20 years.

Release Details

  • Duration:102 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Pavel Jurácek
  • Screenwriter:Pavel Jurácek
  • Cast:
    • Lubomir Kostelka
    • Milena Zahrynovska
    • Klara Jernekova
    • Miroslav Machacek
    • Slavka Budínová
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