The Cassandra Cat (1963)

Original title

Až přijde kocour

Directed by

Vojtěch Jasný

Genre

comedy film, parable, romantic comedy

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wandering circus arrives in a small town with a cat that can see people's true colors. The townspeople's hidden natures start to come out in unexpected ways.

whimsicalsurrealplayfulthought-provokingdreamlikequirkylight-heartedfantastical

What happens

The Cassandra Cat (Czech: Až přijde kocour, lit. 'When The Cat Comes'; also released under the titles When The Cat Comes; The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses; One Day, A Cat; The Cat and That Cat) is a 1963 Czechoslovak avant-garde surrealist fantasy comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Vojtěch Jasný. It is associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave. It follows a narrator who tells the story of a tiny Czechoslovak country town and its townsfolk whose lives begin to change drastically after the arrival of a strange circus troupe and their magical cat. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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