Case for a Rookie Hangman

1970 Czechoslovak drama film

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3 August 1970 (1970-08-03)

Running time

102 minutes^[1]CountryCzechoslovakiaLanguageCzech

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^[2] or absurdist^[1] 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).^[3]

The satire is aimed at the Czechoslovak society, and the movie was soon banned after its release in 1970.^[2] That meant also the end of Juráček's career.^[3]

Plot

Cast

Lubomír Kostelka – Lemuel Gulliver
Klára Jerneková – Markéta
Milena Zahrynowská – Dominika
Radovan Lukavský – Professor Beiel
Jiří Janda – Patrik
Luděk Kopřiva – Vilém Seid
Miloš Vávra – Emil
Miroslav Macháček – Munodi

Release and home media

Asociace Ceských Filmových Klubu re-released the film to Czech theaters in 2002.

Second Run released the film to UK Blu-ray in 2019.

References

^ ^a ^b "A case for the young hangman + Late august at the hotel ozone". Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
^ ^a ^b "The Case for Pavel Jurácek". UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
^ ^a ^b Pajukallio, Arto (2011-08-10). "Nuoren pyövelin tapaus". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). pp. D 5.