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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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Creators

Jaroslav Brabec

director

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Josef Váchal

writer

Jaroslav Brabec

writer

Jiří Brožek

writer

Cast

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Ondřej Pavelka actor

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Klára Jirsáková actor Raoul Schránil actor

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Jakub Saic actor

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Vladimír Marek actor Veronika Freimanová actor

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Jiřina Jelenská actor Rudolf Hrušínský actor

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Barbora Leichnerová actor

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Pavel Pípal actor Jaromír Dulava actor Barbora Hrzánová actor Martin Dejdar actor

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Jitka Asterová actor

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Kateřina Frýbová actor

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Josef Kemr actor Jiří Bartoška actor

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Oldřich Vlach actor Milan Šteindler actor

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Vlastimil Bedrna actor