Out of the Past 2024 / Tajemství hradu v Karpatech / Czechoslovakia 1981
On 4 July, KVIFF marks the centenary of the birth of legendary Czechoslovak director and screenwriter Oldřich Lipský with pithy highlanders and the “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from Orfeo ed Euridice – which, of course, you’ll find in The Mystery of the Carpathian Castle. Written by Lipský and the equally famous Jiří Brdečka, their perhaps greatest collaboration updates Jules Verne’s The Carpathian Castle with unique parodic elements. In search of his missing fiancée, the opera singer Salsa Verde, Count Felix Teleke of Tölökö is led to the mysterious ruins of a nearby castle. In its time a healing tonic in the face of the gray reality of Normalization-era Czechoslovakia, the film is today considered one of the greatest gems of domestic art. Away to Chort Castle!
Vojtěch Kočárník
97 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Oldřich Lipský
/ Screenplay Jiří Brdečka, Oldřich Lipský
/ Dir. of Photography Viktor Růžička
/ Music Luboš Fišer
/ Sound Jiří Lenoch
/ Editor Miroslav Hájek
/ Art Director Jan Zázvorka, Vladimír Labský
/ Production Filmové studio Barrandov
/ Cast Michal Dočolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jan Hartl, Miloš Kopecký, Rudolf Hrušínský
/ Sales Národní filmový archiv
Oldřich Lipský (1924, Pelhřimov, Czechoslovakia – 1986, Prague). Selected filmography: Lemonade Joe (1964), Happy End (1967), Joachim, Put Him into the Machine (1974), Marecek, Please Pass Me the Pen! (1976), Long Live Ghosts! (1977), Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978), The Mystery of the Carpathian Castle (1981), The Three Veterans (1983).
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