Josef Kilián (1963)
(Postava k podpírání)
Country: CZ
Technical: bw 38m
Director: Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt
Cast: Pavel Bartl, Pavel Silhánek, Stanislav Michler
Synopsis:
A man searches through a semi-deserted city for an old comrade, and rents a cat from a shop that subsequently disappears.
Review:
The kind of film one feels obliged to treat with respect, or even reverence, given the difficulties of free artistic expression which its form represents. Thus what might be accused as deliberate obfuscation can at the same time be excused as a self-preserving stratagem. If no one has a clue what is going on, the film-makers can hardly be inculpated for subversion against the state, while the viewer is free to attribute what metaphoric meanings he wishes to the nameless city, the cat and the unseen eponymous figure (a 'disappeared' relative? a Party official? a national hero?)
(Postava k podpírání)
Country: CZ
Technical: bw 38m
Director: Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt
Cast: Pavel Bartl, Pavel Silhánek, Stanislav Michler
Synopsis:
A man searches through a semi-deserted city for an old comrade, and rents a cat from a shop that subsequently disappears.
Review:
The kind of film one feels obliged to treat with respect, or even reverence, given the difficulties of free artistic expression which its form represents. Thus what might be accused as deliberate obfuscation can at the same time be excused as a self-preserving stratagem. If no one has a clue what is going on, the film-makers can hardly be inculpated for subversion against the state, while the viewer is free to attribute what metaphoric meanings he wishes to the nameless city, the cat and the unseen eponymous figure (a 'disappeared' relative? a Party official? a national hero?)
(Postava k podpírání)
Country: CZ
Technical: bw 38m
Director: Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt
Cast: Pavel Bartl, Pavel Silhánek, Stanislav Michler
Synopsis:
A man searches through a semi-deserted city for an old comrade, and rents a cat from a shop that subsequently disappears.
Review:
The kind of film one feels obliged to treat with respect, or even reverence, given the difficulties of free artistic expression which its form represents. Thus what might be accused as deliberate obfuscation can at the same time be excused as a self-preserving stratagem. If no one has a clue what is going on, the film-makers can hardly be inculpated for subversion against the state, while the viewer is free to attribute what metaphoric meanings he wishes to the nameless city, the cat and the unseen eponymous figure (a 'disappeared' relative? a Party official? a national hero?)