Horror Story
6.3
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.
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Ondřej Pavelka
Paseka / Master / Fragonard
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Vyšehrad
Klára Jirsáková
Elzevíra
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My Companions in the Bleak House
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Raoul Schránil
Prince Pedro di Rudibanera
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A Prague Underworld
Kristian
Jakub Saic
Kurt
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Little Witch on a Broomstick
Paní Mlha
Vladimír Marek
Ignác
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Divided We Fall
Veronika Freimanová
Kuba's Wife
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Vyprávěj
Methanol
Jiřina Jelenská
Father Bruna
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The Train of Childhood and Expectation
Třetí patro
Rudolf Hrušínský
Kuba
Known for
I Served the King of England
My Sweet Little Village
Barbora Leichnerová
Hanička
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The King of Colonnades
Podnájem na Champs Ellysèes
Pavel Pípal
Kalina
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Zahrada dětí
Muka obraznosti
Jaromír Dulava
Třasoň
Known for
Dark Blue World
I Served the King of England
Barbora Hrzánová
Honoluluan
Known for
Conspirators of Pleasure
Jaroslav Brabec Director · Josef Váchal Author Jiří Šust Composer
First release May 6, 1993 · Produced in Czechia · Production Česká televize, Filmexport Praha
Production
Barrandov Studio
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Česká televize
Production
Filmexport Praha
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Ministerstvo kultury ČR
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Czechia
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Original title
Krvavý román
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Czechia · May 6, 1993
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