Episode 763: Romance for Bugle (1967)

Guest Co-Hosts: Spencer Parsons, Emily Barney

Czechtember charges ahead as Mike, Spencer Parsons, and Emily Barney dive into Otakar Vávra’s Romance for Bugle (1967). Vávra adapts František Hrubín’s celebrated poem into a lyrical love story set in the Czech countryside. Terina (Zuzana Cigánová), a young Roma woman, ignites passion in Vojta (Jaromír Hanzlík) and Viktor (Štefan Kvietik), pulling the two men into a tense triangle of longing and rivalry. The film also reflects back through the eyes of Vojta as an older man (Július Vašek), who recalls his youthful heartbreak. Cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera saturates the screen with striking imagery, while Vávra shapes the material into a cinematic elegy that fuses poetry, politics, and loss.

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Music:
"Romance pro křídlovku" - Stanislav Sejpal, Rudolf Urbanec, Dechový orchestr Gramofonových závodů

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Episode 537: Witchhammer (1970)

Guest Co-Hosts: Rahne Alexander, Samm Deighan

Czechtember continues with a look at Otakar Vavra’s (1970). Based on the 1963 book by Václav Kaplický, the film looks at the paranoia of a witch hunt in Moravia during medieval times. And, being released in 1970, the film also looks at the persecution of women as well as show trials in the Communist system.

Samm Deighan and Rahne Alexander join Mike to discuss this harrowing film.

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Music:
"Thou Shall Not Suffer A Witch To Live" - Bulletbelt

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