Murderous Tales
5.7
MURDEROUS TALES is a special effect animated feature film combining live actors with 3D/2D animation, puppets and back projection. It contains three stories: Antonio Cacto, Lighthouse and The Big Man, plus three ultra-short films called Charge the Dragon. Each episode uses different production technology and is in a different genre, but both their form and their content are related. All the episodes are about double standards and the topics of heroism and death. Something very small meets something very big (a tiny knight meets a huge dragon, an old Mexican goblin meets a man, a tiny Professor meets real-life cows, two mobsters meet the Big Man). All these meetings result in the heroic death of the small principal characters. Each script sees heroism and death differently.
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Cast
10 people
Jan Budař
Known for
Shadowplay
Medieval
Pavel Landovský
Known for
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Empties
Antonín Jan Abrhám
Jan Bubeníček
Also in
Even Mice Belong in Heaven
Josef Jan Abrhám
Ondřej Trojan
Also in
The Oddsockeaters
Mlýny
Jan Bubenicek
Jiří Schwarz
Known for
The Princess and the Pauper
Denisa Grimmová Abrhámová
Aleš Najbrt
Also in
The Oddsockeaters
In the Shadow
Jan Bubeníček Director · Radek Loukota Cinematographer Zdeněk Marek Editor
United States release April 7, 2017 · Produced in Czechia, Slovakia · Production Česká televize, PubRes
Production
Total HelpArt T.H.A.
Production
Česká televize
Production
PubRes
Production
R.U.R.
Production
AT Studio
Production
Soundsquare
Production
Czechia · Slovakia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Smrtelné historky
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Czechia · March 24, 2016
Theatrical
United States · April 7, 2017
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