Case for a Rookie Hangman

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Case for a Rookie Hangman
Title screen from the opening credits
Directed by	Pavel Juráček
Written by	Pavel Juráček
Based on	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Starring	Lubomír Kostelka
Cinematography	Jan Kališ
Edited by	Miroslav Hájek
Music by	Luboš Fišer
Production company	Filmové studio Barrandov
Distributed by	Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Release date	3 August 1970 (1970-08-03)
Running time	102 minutes[1]
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Case for a Rookie Hangman (Czech: Případ pro začínajícího kata) is a Czechoslovak drama film directed by Pavel Juráček. It was released in 1970. The movie belongs to the Czech New Wave.

The movie can be classified as a surrealist^[2] or absurdist^[1] satire, and it is based loosely on the third book of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, but the story is transferred to an early 20th-century world in decay. The movie shows also the influence of Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).^[3]

The satire is aimed at the Czechoslovak society, and the movie was soon banned after its release in 1970.^[2] That meant also the end of Juráček's career.^[3]

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• Lubomír Kostelka – Lemuel Gulliver
• Klára Jerneková – Markéta
• Milena Zahrynowská – Dominika
• Radovan Lukavský – Professor Beiel
• Jiří Janda – Patrik
• Luděk Kopřiva – Vilém Seid
• Miloš Vávra – Emil
• Miroslav Macháček – Munodi

Asociace Ceských Filmových Klubu re-released the film to Czech theaters in 2002.

Second Run released the film to UK Blu-ray in 2019.

• Case for a Rookie Hangman at IMDb

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