Summary
The eclectic author Miloš Macourek made his screen debut with the script for the playful comedy Kdo chce zabít Jessii? (Who Wants to Kill Jessie?, 1966). After his initiation with Václav Vorlíček, he chose to work with the director Zbyněk Brynych for this ambitious adaptation of a “serious” 1946 novel by Miroslav Hanuš. Já, spravedlnost (I, Justice, 1968) is an imaginative story that explores the possibilities of a parallel history: A Czech doctor named Heřman discovers that Adolf Hitler has survived his suicide and is a prisoner in the private sanatorium of Professor Hartig, who subjects him to repeated psychological abuse in retribution for his crimes... The film’s unsettling atmosphere is capably sustained by Czech film icon Karel Höger in the role of Heřman. Hitler was played by East German actor Fritz Diez. Due to his resemblance to the dictator, he also played the role in the five-part war epic Osvobození (Liberation, 1967–1971), Volbě cíle (Take Aim, 1974), three episodes of the series Sedmnáct zastavení jara (Seventeen Moments of Spring, 1973) and the mini-series Vojáci svobody (Soldiers of Freedom, 1977).
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