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The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1990)
Directed by Evald Schorm
Overview
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.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Jan Kačer | Bohumil Šmída | Jan Libíček | Květa Fialová | Josef Bek | Bohumil Švarc st. | Luba Skořepová | Josef Němeček | Vladimír Jedenáctík | Jaroslav Wagner | Jana Marková | Václav Špidla | Vladimír Ptáček | Eva Řepíková | Václav Trégl | Jaroslav Mareš | Jiří Hálek | Nina Divíšková | Karel Hovorka st. | Karel Belohradský | Zdeněk Sedláček | Božena Böhmová | Václav Babka | Jana Posseltová | Josef Elsner | Pavel Jiras | Vladimír Hrabánek | Jiří Lír | Josefa Pechlátová | Jindřiška Gabriela Preissová | Václav Kotva | Josef Engel | Jaroslav Klenot | Zdeněk Srstka | Jaroslav Tomsa | Karel Vítek | Josef Stehlík | Ladislav Gzela | J. Havlíková | Jiří Plachý ml.