The Cremator
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Venue:
Rochester Independent College's Gainsborough Conference Centre
Cost:
£5 / £4.50
Membership £1
Film: The Cremator
Certificate: 15
Running time: 95 mins
Year: 1969
Country: Czechoslovakia
Awards
Medalla Sitges en Plata de Ley 1972, best Best Actor Rudolf Hrusínsky, Best Cinematography Stanislav Milota
Director: Juraj Herz
Writer: Ladislav Fuks
Cast: Vlasta Chramostova, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Jiri Menzel
Synopsis
Juraj Herz's The Cremator has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy and as a dark and disturbing tale of terror.
Combining horror with humour, this brilliant black comedy, set in Prague during the Nazi occupation, tells the story of Karl Kopfrkingl an increasingly deranged cremator for whom the period offers great possibilities for acting out his psychotic impulses as contribution towards the 'salvation of the world'.
Links:
Internet Movie Database on The Cremator
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