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Murder Czech Style (1967)
Directed by Jiří Weiss
Overview
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.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Květa Fialová | Rudolf Hrušínský | Václav Voska | Vladimír Menšík | Jindřich Narenta | Libuše Švormová | František Šlégr | Jaroslav Solnička | Věra Uzelacová | Milivoj Uzelac | Luda Maresová | Gabriela Bártlová | Alex Jandouš | Vladimír Linka | Gustav Hrdlička | Emanuel Kovařík | Vladimír Navrátil | Paul Leclér | Miloslav Šindler | Jiří Hrubý | František Husák | Václav Kyzlink | Miroslava Kozáková | Zdeněk Blažek | Mariana Lubomírská | Zuzana Minichová | František Suchomel | Vilém Pruner | Libuše Mincová | Jan Cmíral | Josef Vondráček | K. Janoš | H. Suchopár