The Limping Devil

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 13, 1968

Original language

Czech

Spoken languages

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production

Filmové studio Barrandov

Cast

Jiří Ostermann,M. Pirnerová,Zuzana Dubská,Miloslav Šindler,Zdeněk Šmidrkal,František Kopal,J. Ungár,K. Zintl,A. Hůlková,Jiřina Jandováand 55 more

Director

Juraj Herz

Writer

Juraj Herz,Bedřich Kubala,Alain-René Lesage

Producer

Ladislav Novotný

Cinematography

Jan Novák

Music

Jan Klusák

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0171460