Hotel for Strangers (1967)

Original title

Hotel pro cizince

Directed by

Antonín Máša

Genre

drama film, comedy film, parable

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young poet is murdered. The film pieces together his final days using random journal entries, starting from when he checks into a hotel.

absurdwhimsicalfragmentedintrospectiveoffbeatreflectivedisjointedmelancholic

What happens

Hotel for Strangers (Czech: Hotel pro cizince) is a 1967 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Antonín Máša. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. The film reconstructs the last days of murdered young poet Petr Hudec (Petr Čepek), from the random entries of his journal, after he registers at the Hotel Svet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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