zdeněkliška &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:zdeněkliška @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:46:18 +0200 Zahrada [The Garden] (Jan Švankmajer, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/zahrada-1968 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Zahrada [The Garden] (Jan Švankmajer, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Zahrada (1968)/div div class="caption" Jiří Hálek and Luděk Kopřiva as Josef and Frank. DP: Svatopluk Malý./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #JanŠvankmajer #JiříHálek #LuděkKopřiva #ZdeněkLiška #SvatoplukMalý #ShortFilm #surrealism #rabbits #animals #satire #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Zahrada [The Garden] (Jan Švankmajer, 1968)

Oct

25

Zahrada (1968)

Jiří Hálek and Luděk Kopřiva as Josef and Frank. DP: Svatopluk Malý.

#FilmDuJour #October #JanŠvankmajer #JiříHálek #LuděkKopřiva #ZdeněkLiška #SvatoplukMalý #ShortFilm #surrealism #rabbits #animals #satire #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/zahrada-1968 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0200 Smrt si říká Engelchen [Death Is Called Engelchen] (Ján Kadár + Elmar Klos,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-021p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Smrt si říká Engelchen [Death Is Called Engelchen] (Ján Kadár + Elmar Klos, 1963)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" ER – 1994/div div class="img" Smrt si říká Engelchen (1963)/div div class="caption" Pavel (Jan Kačer) recovering face-down in his hospital bed. DP: RudolfMilič./div div class="txt" An emergency room: ER) debuts on this date in 1994. &nbsp; A paralysed Czechoslovak partisan recovering from a shot in the back in an emergency ward, feverishly remembers the events that brought him to that moment. He particularly remembers Engelchen, the SS Sturmbannführer who killed his best friend and massacred the local villagers. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #ER #JánKadár #ElmarKlos #LadislavMňačko #JanKačer #EvaPoláková #MartinRůžek #BlaženaHolišová #PavelBártl #ZdeněkLiška #RudolfMilič #mirrors #drama #war #WW2 #revenge #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Smrt si říká Engelchen [Death Is Called Engelchen] (Ján Kadár + Elmar Klos, 1963)

Sep

19

ER – 1994

Smrt si říká Engelchen (1963)

Pavel (Jan Kačer) recovering face-down in his hospital bed. DP: RudolfMilič.

An emergency room: ER debuts on this date in 1994.

 

A paralysed Czechoslovak partisan recovering from a shot in the back in an emergency ward, feverishly remembers the events that brought him to that moment. He particularly remembers Engelchen, the SS Sturmbannführer who killed his best friend and massacred the local villagers.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #ER #JánKadár #ElmarKlos #LadislavMňačko #JanKačer #EvaPoláková #MartinRůžek #BlaženaHolišová #PavelBártl #ZdeněkLiška #RudolfMilič #mirrors #drama #war #WW2 #revenge #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-021p Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:30:00 +0200 Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v87v <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra Chytilová, 1970)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" orange/div div class="img" Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (1970)/div div class="caption" Eva (Jitka Novákova) devouring oranges under a black umbrella (via). DP: Jaroslav Kučera./div div class="txt" Orange, food or fashion "Tell me the truth!" ### – choir An allegorical, psychedelic retelling of Genesis 3 and the Fall of Man &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #orange #colours #VěraChytilová #JitkaNovákova #KarelNovák #JanSchmid #EvaGabrielová #JuliusAlbert #ZdeněkLiška #JaroslavKučera #food #fruit #oranges #religion #fantasy #drama #Czechoslovakia #Belgium #1970s/div /section ]]>

Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra Chytilová, 1970)

Aug

6

orange

Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (1970)

Eva (Jitka Novákova) devouring oranges under a black umbrella (via). DP: Jaroslav Kučera.

Orange, food or fashion*

“Tell me the truth!”

– choir

An allegorical, psychedelic retelling of Genesis 3 and the Fall of Man

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #orange #colours #VěraChytilová #JitkaNovákova #KarelNovák #JanSchmid #EvaGabrielová #JuliusAlbert #ZdeněkLiška #JaroslavKučera #food #fruit #oranges #religion #fantasy #drama #Czechoslovakia #Belgium #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v87v Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200 Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ikarie-xb-1-1963 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Ikarie XB 1 (1963)/div div class="caption" An astronaut passing a perfectly symmetrical walkway, similar to the ones seen in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). DP: Jan Kališ./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

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 ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ikarie-xb-1-1963 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/touha-zvana-anada-1968-1971 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)/div div class="caption" Zuzka (Milena Dravić) holds a mirror to Anada's (Paula Pritchett) face. Zuzka's husband Jánoš (Rade Marković) looks on. DP: Vladimír Novotný./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #ElmarKlos #JánKadár #LájosZilahy #RadeMarković #MilenaDravić #PaulaPritchett #VladimírNovotný #ZdeněkLiška #VladimírNovotný #drama #fantasy #mirrors #1960s #1970s #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)

May

20

Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)

Zuzka (Milena Dravić) holds a mirror to Anada's (Paula Pritchett) face. Zuzka's husband Jánoš (Rade Marković) looks on. DP: Vladimír Novotný.

#FilmDuJour #May #ElmarKlos #JánKadár #LájosZilahy #RadeMarković #MilenaDravić #PaulaPritchett #VladimírNovotný #ZdeněkLiška #VladimírNovotný #drama #fantasy #mirrors #1960s #1970s #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/touha-zvana-anada-1968-1971 Tue, 20 May 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4z27 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1945/div div class="img" Maratón (1968)/div div class="caption" Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)

May

5

1945

Maratón (1968)

Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš.

#FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4z27 Mon, 05 May 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Baron Prášil [The Fabulous Baron Munchausen] (Karel Zeman, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0b86 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Baron Prášil [The Fabulous Baron Munchausen] (Karel Zeman, 1962)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Under the Skin – 2013/div div class="img" Baron Prášil (1962)/div div class="caption" The Baron (Miloš Kopecký) on the Moon clinks glasses with Cyrano de Bergerac (Karel Höger) and several characters from Jules Verne's De la terre à la lune (1865). A baffled 20supth/sup century astronaut looks on. DP: Jiří Tarantík./div div class="txt" A weird of quirky sci-fi film on the date Under the Skin (2013) was released in the UK. "I cast my hat out into the universe, let it greet those who are on their way from Earth. From this day forward, the Moon is no longer a dream." ### – Cyrano de Bergerac /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #GottfriedAugustBürger #MilošKopecký #JanaBrejchová #RudolfJelínek #KarelHöger #ZdeněkLiška #JiříTarantík #animation #fantasy #SciFi #comedy #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Baron Prášil [The Fabulous Baron Munchausen] (Karel Zeman, 1962)

Mar

14

Under the Skin – 2013

Baron Prášil (1962)

A weird of quirky sci-fi film on the date Under the Skin (2013) was released in the UK.

“I cast my hat out into the universe, let it greet those who are on their way from Earth. From this day forward, the Moon is no longer a dream.”

– Cyrano de Bergerac

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #GottfriedAugustBürger #MilošKopecký #JanaBrejchová #RudolfJelínek #KarelHöger #ZdeněkLiška #JiříTarantík #animation #fantasy #SciFi #comedy #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0b86 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/touha-zvana-anada-1968-1971-rw03 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" salt/div div class="img" Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)/div div class="caption" Semi-off screen, an older man with a moustache at a dinner table – many plates, glasses, and foods – reaches for a bowl of salt. DP: Vladimír Novotný./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #salt #soup #ElmarKlos #JánKadár #LájosZilahy #RadeMarković #MilenaDravić #PaulaPritchett #VladimírNovotný #ZdeněkLiška #VladimírNovotný #drama #fantasy #BookAdaptation #1960s #1970s #Czechoslovakia ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)

Jan

21

salt

Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)

Semi-off screen, an older man with a moustache at a dinner table – many plates, glasses, and foods – reaches for a bowl of salt. DP: Vladimír Novotný.

#FilmDinner #salt #soup #ElmarKlos #JánKadár #LájosZilahy #RadeMarković #MilenaDravić #PaulaPritchett #VladimírNovotný #ZdeněkLiška #VladimírNovotný #drama #fantasy #BookAdaptation #1960s #1970s #Czechoslovakia ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/touha-zvana-anada-1968-1971-rw03 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:56:54 +0100 Holubice [The White Dove] (František Vláčil, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/holubice-1960 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Holubice [The White Dove] (František Vláčil, 1960)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" Official Lost And Found Day/div div class="img" Holubice (1960)/div div class="caption" Michal (Karel Smyczek) finds the white dove perched on a sculpture. The artwork depicts a faceless boy. DP: Jan Čuřík./div div class="txt" Something is lost and found on Official Lost and Found Day (USA) /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #OfficialLostAndFoundDay #FrantišekVláčil #OtakarKirchner #KarelSmyczek #KaterinaIrmanovová #ZdeněkLiška #JanČuřík #BookAdaptation #drama #animals #pigeons #birds #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Holubice [The White Dove] (František Vláčil, 1960)

Dec

9

Official Lost And Found Day

Holubice (1960)

Michal (Karel Smyczek) finds the white dove perched on a sculpture. The artwork depicts a faceless boy. DP: Jan Čuřík.

Something is lost and found on Official Lost and Found Day (USA)

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #OfficialLostAndFoundDay #FrantišekVláčil #OtakarKirchner #KarelSmyczek #KaterinaIrmanovová #ZdeněkLiška #JanČuřík #BookAdaptation #drama #animals #pigeons #birds #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/holubice-1960 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:52:19 +0100 Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ikarie-xb-1-1963-q7d1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" Space Exploration Day/div div class="img" Ikarie XB 1 (1963)/div div class="caption" 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./div div class="txt" Both anticapitalist and pre-Stanley space odyssey. Based on Stanislaw Lem's Obłok Magellana [The Magellanic Cloud] (1955).\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #SpaceExplorationDay #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

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 ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ikarie-xb-1-1963-q7d1 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:04:39 +0200