Lemuel Gulliver
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It was released in 1970. The movie belongs to the Czech New Wave . The movie can be classified as a surrealist [2] or absurdist [1] 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.
Aug 3, 1970 · Case for a Rookie Hangman: Directed by Pavel Jurácek. With Lubomír Kostelka, Klára Jerneková, Milena Zahrynowska, Radovan Lukavský. Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its ...
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- Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Pavel Jurácek
- 1970-08-03
By. Danielle Burgos. Pavel Juráček, writer of bleak survivalist sci-fi Late August At The Hotel Ozone and contributor to the anarchic anti-morality tale Daisies, directed only five films. The last of them, Case for a Rookie Hangman, is a sharply-observed masterpiece of humanity at its most ludicrous (and therefore most human).
Case for a Rookie Hangman. A man continues traveling across an unknown countryside on foot after a car accident and finds himself in a strange land with strange laws.
- Pavel Jurácek
- Drama, Fantasy
- Lubomír Kostelka
07/03/1970 (XC) Comedy , Drama , Fantasy 1h 42m. User. Score. Overview. Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket.
Apr 30, 2017 · April 30, 2017. Fracturing its various moods and themes into isolated chapters, Pavel Juráček’s Case for a Rookie Hangman refashions excerpts of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels into a paranoid and disjointed nightmare, indulging fits of farcical humor and surrealistic imagery in the name of sociological discourse.
Jun 19, 2019 · A Case for a Rookie Hangman was an attack on the Czechoslovakian regime and was swiftly banned. It also signalled the end of Juráček’s directorial career. This early curtailment probably explains whilst he’s one of the lesser known Czech new wave filmmakers. However, he did co-write Chytilová’s Daises and Polák’s Ikarie XB1.
