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Josef Kilian | Postava k podpirani
Jan Schmidt, Pavel Juracek, 1963, 38', subtitles

 

London 23 April
Brighton 28 April
Edinburgh 6 and 7 May

The story of a man who borrows a cat from a cat loan shop and discovers it has disappeared overnight trigging a Kafkaesque journey through bureaucracy. The search for the mysterious Josef Kilian, who will explain everything but may or may not exist, eventually becomes a quest for the hero's own sense of responsibility. A comic and chilling film generates an unsettling mood which is closer to Kafka than Orson Wellesis The Trial.
   
 

The Cry | Krik
Jaromil Jires, 1963, 80', subtitles

 

London 21 April
Edinburgh 6 and 7 May
Bradford 13 May

Jires's charming debut deals with a life of Slavek whose wife is expecting their first baby. They reflect on their life as a couple whilst they wait for the baby and Slavek, meanwhile, encourters every kind of intolerance and threats in the space of a single day. The complex narrative of a film involves flash backs and flash forwards creating a psychological world in which the past, the present, the individual and society intermingle and which can be seen as a plea for a better world.

   
   

   

     

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