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The Limping Devil (1968)
Directed by Juraj Herz
Overview
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana’s father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts…
Length 82 minutes
Actors
Juraj Herz | Václav Neckář | Jana Šulcová | Oľga Šalagová | František Zvarík | Václav Štekl | Yvonne Přenosilová | Robert Morávek | Jaroslav Neduha | Josef Bartoš | Karel Linc | Jiří Lír | Stanislav Litera | Jiří Hálek | Jiří Ostermann | Petr Prouza | Dimitrij Rafalský | Otakar Rödr | Václav Soldát | Miloslav Šindler | Zdeněk Šmidrkal | Jan Vlček | J. Horák | P. Tins | J. Ungár | Eva Blažková | Hana Houbová | Marie Hübschová | Jiřina Jandová | Eva Řepíková | Ruzena Vlcková | H. Bohatová | L. Geussová | D. Hůlková | E. Janoušková | Zuzana Dubská | Václav Halama | Viktor Maurer | Jindřich Poledňa | Rudolf Veselý | Václav Vodák | L. Jirotka | Helena Růžičková | K. Zintl | Jiří Štěpnička | Oldřich Dědek | František Kopal | Ota Jahn | Zdeněk Rytíř | Karel Svoboda | Václav Šimeček | Milan Vobliza | Hana Bažantová | Olga Blechová | Marta Richterová | Hana Talpová | Soňa Zborníková-Stenová | O. Hiršalová | A. Hůlková | L. Kymlová | M. Pirnerová | František Svačina | Michal Herz | Milena Dvorská | Jan Tříska