Murder Czech Style
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The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
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Cast
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Květa Fialová
Alice Pokorná
Known for
Lemonade Joe
Closely Watched Trains
Rudolf Hrušínský
František Pokorný
Known for
The Cremator
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
Miroslav Hájek
Jiří Weiss
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That Kind of Love
Jan Otčenášek
Václav Voska
Námestek
Known for
Beauty and the Beast
Zdeněk Liška
Vladimír Menšík
Emil
Known for
Loves of a Blonde
Happy End
Karel Lier
Jindřich Narenta
Redítel
Known for
The Ear
Libuše Švormová
Jindriská
Also in
Byl jednou jeden dům
Kukačky
Jan Němeček
Jiří Weiss Director · Jan Otčenášek Story Zdeněk Liška Composer
United States release August 19, 1968 · Produced in XC · Production Barrandov Studios
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
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Barrandov Studios
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XC
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Jak jsem se stal vrahem · Novomanžel aneb vražda po našem
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Languages
Original title
Vražda po našem
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Spain · January 1, 1967
San Sebastián Film Festival
XC · February 24, 1967
Theatrical
United States · August 19, 1968
Czechia
February 24, 1967
Germany
January 26, 1970 · TV premiere
Hungary
January 18, 1968
Romania
April 7, 1969 · Theatrical
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