Realização:
David JařabArgumento:
David JařabCâmara:
Marek JíchaMúsica:
Petr HaasElenco:
Viktorie Čermáková, Roman Zach, Ivana Uhlířová, Martin Finger, Jiří Schmitzer, Jiří Černý, Petr Kantor, Anna Ferencová, Oldřich Vlach, Jaroslav Plesl (mais)Conteúdos(1)
Film about love without love, war without war and magic without charms.
In 1914, Colonel von Haukwitz (Jiri Schmitzer) dies under mysterious circumstances during an occultist session. His fiancée, actress Klara Knabelova (Viktorie Cermakova) finds during the investigation that the corpse's head, arms and heart were removed. In an effort to find an answer she comes across colonel's closest pal – Lieutenant Heinrich Roth (Roman Zach) – and their destinies are about to mingle, too. Karel Vrana (Martin Finger), a military investigator, tries to make Klara cooperate against Roth and the occultists within the army. She denies but supports Vrana in his pursuit to find the missing colonel's body parts. Meanwhile, Lt. Roth is summoned to World War I. and Vrana sets out across Europe to look for von Haukwitz's remains used by occultist groups. Klara moves to Moravia to a farm where she was born – and receives another body part, Lt. Roth's hand. Full of disillusion, he returns to Klara's farm after the war trying to find new ways to satisfy his own irrationality. He finds them in senseless experiments with roosters or weird trips to the wilderness, where he encounters bizarre dream-like affections. However, this torridness and emptiness can't, or maybe don't want to, satisfy Klara anymore. Vrana then comes to the farm in possession of the found colonel's remains. He finds himself struck by a paralysis of a kind, being unable to offer anything to Klara, despite having been attracted to her from the very first moment.
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Críticas (2)
Skillful, thoughtfully fragmentary and confusing, sometimes very funny, but terribly cold and mechanical the entire time. What works well on the "dehumanized" stage of the Comedy Theatre feels quite sterile in a Secessionist and rustic design. And Viktoria Čermáková, although she exudes the elegance of Mucha posters, is a very bland actress. Sovereigns like Zach and Finger know how to deal with it, she's such a beauty in a cloud of smoke behind a cold window. Too bad, although I do still appreciate Jařab's contribution to film. It's just not as convincing and crisp as it is on the theater floor boards. P.S. The frequent complaints that the film makes no sense at all is rather sad proof of contemporary audience "literacy".
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I like weird movies, I even like absurd movies, and even bizarre ones, but this film kind of fits into all of them, but it's not weird enough for me to enjoy it. Czech production has interesting directions, but this one definitely doesn't belong among those that I admire. Long viewer suffering without any result.
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