Rent Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
3.6 of 5 from 58 ratings
1h 18min
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- Synopsis:
Juraj Jakubisko's long-suppressed tale of love, death and insanity focuses on the unconventional relationship between two men and a Jewish orphan girl (Marketa Lazarova's eponymous Magda Vasaryova) as they travail a war-torn landscape of bombed-out churches and wrecked homes. Evoking the cinema of Truffaut, Godard and Buhuel, Jakubisko's exhilarating and free-wheeling film is by turns playful, surreal and, finally, increasingly nightmarish. Studded with cultural and historical references it was regarded by the then-authorities as 'decadent and harmful art' and banned until the very end of the Communist regime in 1989. Now, forty-five years on, it remains, politically and formally, one of the most radical films of the Czechoslovak New Wave. - Actors:
- Philippe Avron, Jirí Sýkora, Magda Vásáryová, Míla Beran, Augustín Kubán, Mikulás Ladizinský, Jana Stehnová
- Directors:
- Juraj Jakubisko
- Producers:
- Jan Svikruha, Jan Tomaskovic
- Writers:
- Juraj Jakubisko, Karol Sidon
- Aka:
- Vtackovia, siroty a blazni
- Studio:
- Second Run
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- Top 10 Czech Films, Top Films
- Countries:
- Czechoslovakia
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