Plot
The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.
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Cast
Ondřej Pavelka
Paseka / Master / Fragonard
Klára Jirsáková
Elzevíra
Raoul Schránil
Prince Pedro di Rudibanera
Jakub Saic
Kurt
Vladimír Marek
Ignác
Veronika Freimanová
Kuba's Wife
Jiřina Jelenská
Father Bruna
Rudolf Hrušínský
Kuba
Barbora Leichnerová
Hanička
Pavel Pípal
Kalina
Jaromír Dulava
Třasoň
Barbora Hrzánová
Honoluluan
Martin Dejdar
Honoluluan
Jitka Asterová
Klárka
Kateřina Frýbová
Anna Kocourková
Josef Kemr
Hanička's Grandfather
Jiří Bartoška
Rolf
Oldřich Vlach
Policeman
Milan Šteindler
Fugitive Madman
Vlastimil Bedrna
Vailaurd
Bořivoj Navrátil
Dr. Římsa
Marek Vašut
Captain Rodriguez
Oto Ševčík
Pirate Leader
Martinus Soedjoko
Albatrus Cook
Pavel Nový
Outcast
Roman Skamene
Outcast
Rudolf Hrušínský
Outcast
Jiřina Třebická
Háta
Jan Skopeček
Hermit
Petr Drozda
Salvation Army Agent
Stanislav Hájek
Tall Jesuit
Josef Hrubý
Tavern Keeper
Helena Lehká
Mother Superior
Miriam Kantorková
Madam
Daniel Kranda
Man
Jan Antonín Duchoslav
Outcast Doctor
Tereza Brabcová
Bidder
Jiří Brožek
Drunk
Václav Marhoul
Man
Ludmila Michalová
Prostitute
Zdenka Žerská
Prostitute
Sylvie Krobová
Prostitute
Jarmila Bělíková
Prostitute
Ladislav Klepal
Outcast
Petr Reidinger
Outcast
Viktor Spousta
Outcast
Arnošt Kurell
Pirate
Petr Taťoun
Pirate
Petr Voříšek
Outcast
Ladislav Horáček
Publisher
Lubomír Švehelka
Publisher
Vít Kahle
Publisher
Zdeněk Dragoun
Publisher
Jindřich Špicner
Publisher
Julius Hůlek
Publisher
Pavel Štefan
Publisher
Tamara Nathová
Prostitute
Zuzana Sixtová
Prostitute
Alena Zemančíková
Prostitute
Jaroslav Tomsa
Jiří Kraus
Martin Hub
Jiří Kuba
Pavel Myslík
Frantisek Stupka
Petr Drozda
Karel Vávrovec
Rudolf Bok
František Jákl
Jaroslav Vlk
Leo Stransky
Viktor Červenka
Jindřich Klaus
Karel Augusta ml.
Zdeněk Dvořáček
Milan Slepička
Pirate / Bandit
Zbyšek Svatek
Zdeněk Krumpl
Pavel Cajzl
Pavel Vokoun
Arnošt Böhm
Jaroslav Pšenička
Pavel Krátký
Pavel Bezděk
Dusan Hyska
Dimo Lipitkovský
Luděk Jelen
Václav Luks
Fencer
Jaroslav Luks
Fencer
Miloslav Císař
Fencer
Miroslav Fantyš
Fencer
J. Jelínek
Fencer
P. Valenta
Fencer
J. Kára
Fencer
R. Sýkora
Fencer
I. Šafránek
Fencer
M. Doležal
Fencer
Z. Samec
Fencer
J. Andrášek
Fencer
P. Trojánek
Fencer
V. Hajdina
Fencer
Z. Brychta
Fencer
Martin Dušátko
Fencer
M. Šnajder
Fencer
Antonín Češpivo
Fencer
Vlastimil Přáda
Fencer
J. Dubin
Fencer
Daniel Soedjoko
Albatrus Deck Hand (uncredited)
Naďa Šafratová
Rudibanerová (uncredited)
Ivan Novotný
Tall Boy (uncredited)
Růžena Černušáková
Ghost (uncredited)
Michal Svoboda
Ghost (uncredited)
Vladimír Živný
Outcast (uncredited)
Alena Štréblová
Puppeteer (uncredited)
