Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

  • NR
  • 07/03/1970 (XC)
  • Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
  • 1h 42m

Overview

Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.

Pavel Juráček

Director, Screenplay

Jonathan Swift

Novel

Cast

Lubomír Kostelka's headshot

Lubomír Kostelka

Lemuel Gulliver
Pavel Landovský's headshot

Pavel Landovský

Fízl
Klára Jerneková's headshot

Klára Jerneková

Markéta
Milena Zahrynowská's headshot

Milena Zahrynowská

Dominika
Luděk Kopřiva's headshot

Luděk Kopřiva

Vilém Seid
Slávka Budínová's headshot

Slávka Budínová

Vilma Seidová
Pavel Bošek's headshot

Pavel Bošek

docent Baux
František Holar's headshot

František Holar

Vedoucí dobrovolník

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