The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

99 mins | Comedy | May 5, 1983

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

99 mins | Comedy | May 5, 1983

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers
Original title Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne
Directors Věra Chytilová
Writers Ester Krumbachová, Věra Chytilová

Cast

Ivan Vyskočil

as Tonda

Ivana Chýlková

as Kateřina

Jiří Hálek

as Josef

Stanislava Coufalová

as Zdenička