A grotesque satire freely inspired by the third book of Gulliver's Travels (meets Franz Kafka). The labyrinthine fantasy begins when Gulliver (portrayed with hapless wonderment by Lubomir Kostelka) wrecks his car and finds himself in a world in which absurdity is the daily reality and fighting it usually proves self-defeating. The film is marvelously shot on location in South Bohemia, with an old chateau or two providing the appropriately baroque interiors for Gulliver's adventures, while the rural outdoors rings with a kind of timelessness in which a white rabbit dressed as a man, and a motorcar with a man in it, look equally ridiculous. Even such confirmed pessimists as Swift and Kafka might not have conceived of the fate with which Juracek's film met. (It was "banned forever" in 1973.) Critics recognized Juracek to be an extraordinary talent and Hangman to be his masterpiece.