Released Date:
1993-10-01
Languages:
Czech
Countries:
Czechoslovakia
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (1910 Reviews)
Director:
Jan SverèkZdenek Sverèk (story)
Zdenek Sverèk (screenplay)
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women.
Released Date:
2005-11-17
Languages:
Czech
Countries:
Czech Republic, Slovakia
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (2569 Reviews)
Director:
Jan SvankmajerEdgar Allan Poe (story)
Marquis de Sade (story)
Jan Svankmajer
A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.
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