In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jirí Weiss
The Golden Fern / Zlaté kapradí (1963) Jirí Weiss, Vít Olmer, Daniela Smutná, Karla Chadimová
This is the story of a woodcutter in Bohemia during a war between Austria and Turkey. Read More »
The Stolen Border AKA Uloupená hranice (1947) Jirí Weiss, Ladislav H. Struna, Rudolf Deyl, Rudolf Siroký
The Stolen Border (Uloupená hranice) is a 1947 Czechoslovak war film depicting events before signing fateful Munich Agreement Read More »
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960) Jirí Weiss, Ivan Mistrík, Daniela Smutná, Jirina Sejbalová
Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Read More »
Vrazda po nasem / Murder Czech Style (1967) Jirí Weiss, Rudolf Hrusínský, Kveta Fialová, Václav Voska, Comedy, Crime
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The “Murder” of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife’s unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ‘ Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
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