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Case for a Rookie Hangman (Czech: Případ pro začínajícího kata) is a Czechoslovak drama film directed by Pavel Juráček. It was released in 1970. The movie belongs to the Czech New Wave.
Aug 3, 1970 · Case for a Rookie Hangman: Directed by Pavel Jurácek. With Lubomír Kostelka, Klára Jerneková, Milena Zahrynowska, Radovan Lukavský. Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Pavel Jurácek
- 1970-08-03
Apr 30, 2017 · Fracturing its various moods and themes into isolated chapters, Pavel Juráček’s Case for a Rookie Hangman refashions excerpts of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels into a paranoid and disjointed nightmare, indulging fits of farcical humor and surrealistic imagery in the name of sociological discourse.
A man continues traveling across an unknown countryside on foot after a car accident and finds himself in a strange land with strange laws.
- Pavel Jurácek
- Drama, Fantasy
- Lubomír Kostelka
Overview. Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket.
The last of them, Case for a Rookie Hangman, is a sharply-observed masterpiece of humanity at its most ludicrous (and therefore most human). Hangman screened for barely two months in 1969 before being shut down by the hardened Communist regime after the Soviet invasion.
Case for a Rookie Hangman is a Czech drama film directed by Pavel Juráček. It was released in 1970. The movie belongs to the Czech New Wave.
