The Murder of Mr. Devil

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Czechoslovakia

1970

72 Min

Color

Czech

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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CAST Jiřina Bohdalová, Vladimír Menšík, Ljuba Hermanová, Helena Růžičková

This half comedy, half fairy tale about a woman itching to marry, told through preposterously exaggerated interpretations of her personal experiences, falls back on the performances of the actors starring in the two main roles. Beautiful, kind and understanding She (Jiřina Bohdalová) wants to marry at any cost. Ugly, arrogant and ever-hungry He (Vladimír Menšík) is in fact only interested in her culinary skills. She does not, however, give up, even when Mr. Devil turns out to be a real devil because, “Truth be told, ladies, better the Abominable Snowman – yes, even him! – than no man.” This visually refined feminist film about one variant of a relationship between a man and a woman is the directorial debut and concurrently the only feature film by screenwriter and artist Ester Krumbachová. —http://www.febiofest.cz

Director

Ester Krumbachová

Ester Krumbachová – an artist, screenplay writer, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre, she was a writer and an illustrator. She co-created films such as The Party and the Guests, Daisies, All My Good Countrymen, Fruit of Paradise, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, The Very Late Afternoon of Faun, Marian, and many others. In the 1960s, she was a ‘pivot’ of the art scene in Prague, attracting artists who were on the threshold of their career, just setting out to find their own form of selfrealization. —filmcenter.cz

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xrystyna

17Aug12

a kind of a marriage of more 'down-to-earth' czech comedies of the era with the surrealist/avantgarde movies of the days. it didn't quite work for me when i watched it, but it is different, amuzing enough, has a couple of really good scenes - all in all, worth the time