Tainted Horseplay

Věra Chytilová, 1988

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Medium Duration Subtitles
35 mm 129 min German, French, English, Italian
DCP 129 min

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In the film there are used texts, sayings and anthem of the Sklep theatre. The film is called according to the poem: Tainted Horseplay By the hoof here, by the hoof there, nine time passed the second day. By the hoof here, by the hoof there, mirror reflexions are burning in the sun. My heart from the body frame is crowing out, and in the evening my forehead is walking up in the row. And the command The Castle! My command Direction! I forgot for the nine time over the second day. And the drums of the bushes feel the strong tone. By the hoofs beat imprudence, by the hoof here, by the hoof there. The cimbaly smell in the grotesque right of my death. Only the kettledrums are shouting. By the hoof here, by the hoof there. And Florian Targonelli squeezes his way with his bike around the Otter´s creek. The hat reinforced above the mind and reason in the skip of a little joy. The joy lasts a small fairy of disturbance. And I am falling dazzled by her blackness. By the hoof the beats imprudence.
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About a film

Production year 1988
Countries Czechoslovakia
Categories film
Genres psychological, tragicomedy, morality
Form feature
Duration 129 min
Director Věra Chytilová
Cast Tomáš Hanák, Milan Šteindler, David Vávra, Ivana Kuntová, Tereza Kučerová
Director of photography Jaroslav Brabec
Screenplay Věra Chytilová, Pavel Škapík
Editor Ivana Kačírková
Production designer Zbyněk Hloch
Music Jiří Chlumecký, Jiří Veselý
Sound designer Miloslav Hůrka