Episode 340 · Film year 1970
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)
- Special Guest
- Peter Hames
- Guest Co-Hosts
- Kat Ellinger, Kevin Heffernan
Show notes
Czechtember continues with a look at Pavel Jurácek's Case for a Rookie Hangman (AKA Prípad pro zacínajícího kata) from 1970. Very loosely based on the third part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the film tells the tale of Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) in the land of Balnibarbi, a surrealistic landscape where Lemuel has a hard time finding his footing, literally.
Kat Ellinger (opens in a new tab) and Kevin Heffernan (opens in a new tab) join Mike to discuss the malleability of Swift's satire and The Key to Determining Dwarfs, or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver (opens in a new tab).
Kat Ellinger (opens in a new tab) and Kevin Heffernan (opens in a new tab) join Mike to discuss the malleability of Swift's satire and The Key to Determining Dwarfs, or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver (opens in a new tab).
Labels: 1970 Czech New Wave Czechtember Jonathan Swift Kat Ellinger Kevin Heffernan Pavel Jurácek Peter Hames
Watch
Music credits
- "The Flying Island" - Trevor Jones
- "Laputa" - Trevor Jones
Links & resources
- Buy Case for a Rookie Hangman on Blu-ray/DVD (opens in a new tab)
- Buy Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (opens in a new tab)
- Buy The Czechoslovak New Wave by Peter Hames (opens in a new tab)
- Buy Avant-garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties by Jonathan Owen (opens in a new tab)
- Hear more of Kat Ellinger on the Daughters of Darkness podcast (opens in a new tab)
- Hear Kat's interview on the Supporting Characters podcast (opens in a new tab)
- Read Knot and Gender blog by Kevin Heffernan (opens in a new tab)
- Read The Crawling Eye Cult Media Blog by Kevin Heffernan (opens in a new tab)
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