The Case for Pavel Jurácek

3/20/04 to 3/28/04

  • A Case for the Young Hangman, March 27

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  • The Jester's Tale

    • Sunday, March 28 3:40pm

    Karel Zeman's brilliant animation, cowritten with Jurácek: ironic, surreal, following the adventures of a plowboy and a mercenary to the battlefields of the Thirty Years War.

  • Ikarie XB-1

    • Sunday, March 28 5:30pm

    Landmark science fiction written by Jurácek and director Jindrich Polak. In the 22nd century, problems on earth have long since been solved by communism. Now there is the Dark Star to contend with.

  • The End of August in the Hotel Ozone

    • Saturday, March 27 7:00pm

    The ultimate landscape after battle: post thermonuclear war, eight young women are led by an elder in search of males with whom to procreate; to be not the last ones, but the first ones.

  • A Case for the Young Hangman

    • Saturday, March 27 8:50pm

    Jurácek's masterpiece, a vivid, dreamlike satire freely inspired by Gulliver's Travels-updated for absurdity. "Full of spirit and sparkling wit without leaving a pure, rationalistic level of thought."-Int'l. Film Guide

  • The Key to Determining Dwarfs, or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver

    • Saturday, March 20 7:00pm

    A new film based on the journals of the talented writer-director Jurácek during the Czech New Wave. "A unique, affecting film essay."-Variety. With Josef Kilián: In which our hero rents a tomcat. In 1963, a reflection of an absurd world.

  • Every Young Man

    • Saturday, March 20 9:05pm

    Soldiers in this Czech army don't have to fight, and that's a good thing, given the comic-dream world Jurácek invents from mere reality. With short The Dynamite Keeper.