Murder Czech Style

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 24, 1967

Original language

Czech

Spoken languages

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production

Filmové studio Barrandov

Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský,Josef Vondráček,Libuše Švormová,Gustav Hrdlička,Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová,Jaroslav Solnička,František Šlégr,Vladimír Navrátil,Václav Voska,Vladimír Menšíkand 23 more

Director

Jiří Weiss

Writer

Miloš Brož,Jiří Weiss,Jan Otčenášek

Producer

Karel Feix

Cinematography

Jan Němeček

Music

Zdeněk Liška

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0062462