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Případ pro začínajícího kata [Case for a Rookie Hangman] (Pavel Juráček, 1970)

Jan

30

doors

Případ pro začínajícího kata (1970)

In a completely dark room, a large silhouette of a man can be seen rushing through a brightly lit doorway. Other, impossible doors at odd heights show several people observing the man. Still via DVDBeaver. DP: Jan Kališ.

A gateway or door for Janus, god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and ending.

 

A man named Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) accidentally runs over a rabbit, who is dressed to the nines and carries a pocket watch. Slowly, the man finds himself in a sort of Wonderland.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #gateways #doors #Janus #PavelJuráček #JonathanSwift #LubomírKostelka #PavelLandovský #LubošFišer #JanKališ #drama #fantasy #mystery #BookAdaptation #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★★☆

Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)

Jun

26

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)

An astronaut passing a perfectly symmetrical walkway, similar to the ones seen in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). DP: Jan Kališ.

#FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆

Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem [Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea] (Jindřich Polák, 1977)

Jun

1

Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem (1977)

Time-traveling tourist Shirley White (Marie Rosůlková) dragging a bewildered Hitler (František Vicena) in front of her husband's photo camera. DP: Jan Kališ.

“Patrick, it's Hitler! Yes it is Hitler! Patrick, you must take a picture of me with him!”

– Shirley White, American time traveler

#FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #MarieRosůlková #FrantišekVicena #KarelSvoboda #JanKališ #SciFi #WW2 #TimeTravel #comedy #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★½

Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)

Jul

20

Space Exploration Day

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)

Two astronauts weightlessly pushing themselves through a round airlock. Their suits are eerily similar to the ones seen in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). DP: Jan Kališ.

Both anticapitalist and pre-Stanley space odyssey. Based on Stanislaw Lem's Obłok Magellana [The Magellanic Cloud] (1955).

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #SpaceExplorationDay #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆