
The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.
Release Date: 5/6/1993
Runtime: 99 minutes
Languages: Czech
Director: Jaroslav Brabec
00Companies: Barrandov Studio, Česká televize, Filmexport Praha, Ministerstvo kultury ČR
Countries: Czech Republic

Vladimír Marek
Ignác

Ondřej Pavelka
Paseka / Master / Fragonard
Klára Jirsáková
Elzevíra

Raoul Schránil
Prince Pedro di Rudibanera
Jakub Saic
Kurt

Vladimír Marek
Ignác

Veronika Freimanová
Kuba's Wife
Jiřina Jelenská
Father Bruna

Rudolf Hrušínský
Kuba
Barbora Leichnerová
Hanička

Pavel Pípal
Kalina

Jaromír Dulava
Třasoň

Barbora Hrzánová
Honoluluan
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