A Case for a Rookie Hangman (DVD, Region Free)

Pavel Jurek’s free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Jonathan Swift’sGulliver’s Travelsalso channels Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka to create one of Czechoslovak cinema’s most audacious and disturbing works.

Lost on a country road, a man finds himself trapped in a nightmare world that mirrors Communist-era Czechoslovakia. This transgressive film, like his earlier surrealist triumphJosef Kilin(1963), greatly provoked the authorities and was promptly ‘banned forever’.

Jurcek, co-writer of Czech masterworksDaisies, Ikarie XB 1andA Jester’s Tale, was never allowed to direct another film – but his legacy and his commitment to poetic and political truth, remains one of the most profound, invigorating and important in all Czech cinema.

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