Murder Czech Style

Murder Czech Style

90 mins | Comedy | Feb. 24, 1967

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.

Murder Czech Style

90 mins | Comedy | Feb. 24, 1967

Murder Czech Style
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Producers Filmové studio Barrandov
Original title Vražda po našem
Directors Jan Turek, Helena Pokorná, Václav Polák, Jiří Weiss
Writers Miloš Brož, Jan Otčenášek, Jiří Weiss

Cast

Květa Fialová

as Alice Pokorná

Rudolf Hrušínský

as František Pokorný

Václav Voska

as Námestek

Jindřich Narenta

as Redítel

Libuše Švormová

as Jindriská

František Šlégr

as Vrátný

Věra Uzelacová

as Bindrová