Joseph Kilian (1964)

Original title

Postava k podpírání

Directed by

Jan Schmidt, Pavel Juráček

Genre

short film, drama film, parable

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

38 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to adopt a cat in a strange bureaucratic process. He encounters odd officials and perplexing rules in an increasingly surreal situation.

surrealabsurdistatmosphericmysteriousslow-pacedmelancholicoffbeatcontemplative

What happens

Joseph Kilian (Czech: Postava k podpírání), also known as Josef Kilián, is a 1963 short Czech drama film directed by Pavel Juráček and Jan Schmidt. It was released in 1964. The movie belongs to the Czech New Wave. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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