worldhippoday &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:worldhippoday @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:55:40 +0200 Hroch [The Hippo] (Karel Steklý, 1973) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/hroch-1973 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Hroch [The Hippo] (Karel Steklý, 1973)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" World Hippo Day/div div class="img" Hroch (1973)/div div class="caption" A poster for Hroch, showing a beautifully dressed woman in an animal enclosure feeding a hippopotamus what appears to be a consecrated wafer. A TV camera in the back records it all. DP: František Uldrich./div div class="txt" ##### In this political satire criticising Czechoslovakia's "normalisation"?useskin=vector) period, a journalist learns about bank employee Bedrich Hroch, who – while attempting to determine how much #gold the local #zoo's hippopotamus' needs for a tooth replacement – is swallowed by the animal.\ &nbsp; With the man happily residing inside the creature, his journalist friend hatches a plan to use the "talking hippo" for political means ./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldHippoDay #KarelSteklý #OldoHlavácek #JaromírKlempíř #FrantišekUldrich #comedy #satire #propaganda #politics #animals #hippos #PragueSpring #Prague #Czechoslovakia #1970s/div /section ]]>

Hroch [The Hippo] (Karel Steklý, 1973)

Feb

15

World Hippo Day

Hroch (1973)

A poster for Hroch, showing a beautifully dressed woman in an animal enclosure feeding a hippopotamus what appears to be a consecrated wafer. A TV camera in the back records it all. DP: František Uldrich.

In this political satire criticising Czechoslovakia's “normalisation” period, a journalist learns about bank employee Bedrich Hroch, who – while attempting to determine how much #gold the local #zoo's hippopotamus' needs for a tooth replacement – is swallowed by the animal.

 

With the man happily residing inside the creature, his journalist friend hatches a plan to use the “talking hippo” for political means .

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldHippoDay #KarelSteklý #OldoHlavácek #JaromírKlempíř #FrantišekUldrich #comedy #satire #propaganda #politics #animals #hippos #PragueSpring #Prague #Czechoslovakia #1970s

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