A Case for a Rookie Hangman
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Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
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Cast
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Lubomír Kostelka
Lemuel Gulliver
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Pavel Landovský
Fízl
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Klára Jerneková
Markéta
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Milena Zahrynowská
Dominika
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Prague Nights
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Milena Zahrynowska
Dominika
Luděk Kopřiva
Vilém Seid
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Slávka Budínová
Vilma Seidová
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Kolya
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Pavel Bošek
docent Baux
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The Party and the Guests
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František Holar
Vedoucí dobrovolník
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DS-70 nevyjíždí
Dobrodružství Huckleberryho Finna
Miroslav Macháček
Munodi
Known for
Ikarie XB 1
The Valley of the Bees
Věra Ferbasová
Munodiová
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Andula vyhrála
Eduard Dubský
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Pavel Juráček Director · Jonathan Swift Author Luboš Fišer Composer
United States release October 22, 2015 · Produced in XC, Czechia · Production Barrandov Studios
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
Production
Barrandov Studios
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XC · Czechia
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Original title
Případ pro začínajícího kata
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
XC · July 3, 1970
Limited theatrical
United States · October 22, 2015
Czechia
August 3, 1970
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