The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
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An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the station master. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes over and everyone's worst instincts are unleashed. Interrogations, disenfranchisement, and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder. The movie was completed in 1969, but it was banned and not released till 1990, Evald Schorm who died in 1988 never saw it completed.
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Cast
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Jan Kačer
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The Valley of the Bees
Bohumil Šmída
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Jan Libíček
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Květa Fialová
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Josef Bek
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Bohumil Švarc
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Luba Skořepová
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Josef Němeček
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Vladimír Jedenáctík
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Jaroslav Wagner-Klenka
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Jana Marková
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Václav Špidla
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Evald Schorm Director · Zdeněk Mahler Screenplay Jan Klusák Composer
First release December 11, 1969 · Produced in XC, Czechia · Production Barrandov Studios
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
Production
Barrandov Studios
Studio · Production
XC · Czechia
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Než napočítáš do tří
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Languages
Original title
Den sedmý – osmá noc
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
XC · December 11, 1969
Physical · Taken into the national archives, only later distributed in 1990
XC · June 1, 1990
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
August 18, 2008 · Physical · DVD
XC
May 17, 1990 · Premiere · Prague, Lucerna theatre
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