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Czech. Case for a Rookie Hangman ( Czech: Případ pro začínajícího kata) is a Czechoslovak drama film directed by Pavel Juráček. 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 ...
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.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Pavel Jurácek
- 1970-08-03
Aug 28, 2016 · A Case for a Rookie Hangman is a brilliantly layered film evoking the surrealism of Jean Cocteau's 'Orpheus' with stunning, Tarkovsky-esque, cinematography by Jan Kalis, wrapped in a child-like dream of political bureaucracy and governmental suppression... a must-own for cinephiles." So say DVD Beaver
Case for a Rookie Hangman. 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.
Dec 20, 2015 · Case for a Rookie Hangman is loosely based on the third part of Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. There are also references to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Franz Kafka’s The Castle. It is similar in some respects to Orson Welles’ adaptation of Kafka’s ...
Featured. April 30th 2018. 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 ...
