Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

Original title

Případ pro začínajícího kata

Directed by

Pavel Juráček

Genre

drama film, parable

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man finds himself in a decaying early 20th century world based loosely on Gulliver's Travels. The film satirizes Czechoslovak society through absurd and surreal events.

surrealabsurdistsatiricalbleakcerebralunsettlingslow-burndreamlike

What happens

Case for a Rookie Hangman (Czech: Případ pro začínajícího kata) is a Czechoslovak drama film directed by Pavel Juráček. It was released in 1970. The movie belongs to the Czech New Wave. The movie can be classified as a surrealist or absurdist satire, and it is based loosely on the third book of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, but the story is transferred to an early 20th-century world in decay. The movie shows also the influence of Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). The satire is aimed at the Czechoslovak society, and the movie was soon banned after its release in 1970. That meant also the end of Juráček's career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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