A Case for a Rookie Hangman

Jul 3, 1970

1h 42m

★ 6.8

Overview

Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Fantasy

Production Companies

Filmové studio Barrandov

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Cast

Lemuel Gulliver

Lubomír Kostelka

Fízl

Pavel Landovský

Markéta

Klára Jerneková

Dominika

Milena Zahrynowská

Vilém Seid

Luděk Kopřiva

Vilma Seidová

Slávka Budínová

docent Baux

Pavel Bošek

Vedoucí dobrovolník

František Holar

Munodi

Miroslav Macháček

Munodiová

Věra Ferbasová

Prefekt

Eduard Dubský

Emil

Miloš Vávra

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