Horror Story

Comedy

Horror

The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.

Date: 05/06/1993

Rating: 6.9

Cast: Ondřej Pavelka, Klára Jirsáková, Raoul Schránil, Jakub Saic, Vladimír Marek, Veronika Freimanová, Jiřina Jelenská, Rudolf Hrušínský, Barbora Leichnerová, Pavel Pípal, Jaromír Dulava, Barbora Hrzánová, Martin Dejdar, Jitka Asterová, Kateřina Frýbová, Josef Kemr, Jiří Bartoška, Oldřich Vlach, Milan Šteindler, Vlastimil Bedrna, Bořivoj Navrátil, Marek Vašut, Oto Ševčík, Martinus Soedjoko, Pavel Nový, Roman Skamene, Rudolf Hrušínský, Jiřina Třebická, Jan Skopeček, Petr Drozda, Stanislav Hájek, Josef Hrubý, Helena Lehká, Miriam Kantorková, Daniel Kranda, Jan Antonín Duchoslav, Tereza Brabcová, Jiří Brožek, Václav Marhoul, Ludmila Michalová, Zdenka Žerská, Sylvie Krobová, Jarmila Bělíková, Ladislav Klepal, Petr Reidinger, Viktor Spousta, Arnošt Kurell, Petr Taťoun, Petr Voříšek, Ladislav Horáček, Lubomír Švehelka, Vít Kahle, Zdeněk Dragoun, Jindřich Špicner, Julius Hůlek, Pavel Štefan, Tamara Nathová, Zuzana Sixtová, Alena Zemančíková, Jaroslav Tomsa, Jiří Kraus, Martin Hub, Jiří Kuba, Pavel Myslík, Frantisek Stupka, Petr Drozda, Karel Vávrovec, Rudolf Bok, František Jákl, Jaroslav Vlk, Leo Stransky, Viktor Červenka, Jindřich Klaus, Karel Augusta ml., Zdeněk Dvořáček, Milan Slepička, Zbyšek Svatek, Zdeněk Krumpl, Pavel Cajzl, Pavel Vokoun, Arnošt Böhm, Jaroslav Pšenička, Pavel Krátký, Pavel Bezděk, Dusan Hyska, Dimo Lipitkovský, Luděk Jelen, Václav Luks, Jaroslav Luks, Miloslav Císař, Miroslav Fantyš, J. Jelínek, P. Valenta, J. Kára, R. Sýkora, I. Šafránek, M. Doležal, Z. Samec, J. Andrášek, P. Trojánek, V. Hajdina, Z. Brychta, Martin Dušátko, M. Šnajder, Antonín Češpivo, Vlastimil Přáda, J. Dubin, Daniel Soedjoko, Naďa Šafratová, Ivan Novotný, Růžena Černušáková, Michal Svoboda, Vladimír Živný, Alena Štréblová

Ondřej Pavelka