The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / Postava k podpírání / Czechoslovakia 1963
In this tale strange things are afoot right from the outset: A man borrows a cat from a rental shop and when he tries to return it the following day, he finds the place has disappeared. The atmosphere darkens a little more when the poor man appeals to the authorities for help: endless corridors in dismal buildings, unfriendly bureaucrats in offices, and chillingly bizarre surprises at every turn. In his very first outing Juráček established himself as an intellectual filmmaker and demonstrated that he came close to Kafka’s perception of human destiny and to his style of writing. Using purely cinematic devices, here he recreates the author’s unsettling incongruity between stark, matter-of-fact depiction and situations that resemble nightmares.
Zdena Škapová
39 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Pavel Juráček, Jan Schmidt
/ Screenplay Pavel Juráček, Jan Schmidt
/ Dir. of Photography Jan Čuřík
/ Music Wiliam Bukový
/ Sound Adolf Nacházel, Bohumír Brunclík
/ Editor Zdeněk Stehlík
/ Art Director Oldřich Bosák
/ Production Filmové studio Barrandov
/ Cast Karel Vašíček, Consuela Morávková, Ivan Růžička
/ Sales Národní filmový archiv
Pavel Juráček (1935–1989). Selected filmography: Joseph Kilian (1963, with Jan Schmidt), Every Young Man (1965), Case for a Rookie Hangman, (1969). Jan Schmidt (1934–2019). Selected filmography: Joseph Kilian (1963, with Pavel Juráček), Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1966), The Lanfier Colony (1969), Queen Dorothy’s Bow (1970), Lenin, the Lord and Mother (1990).
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