Rating:
7.7/10 by 216 users
The Cremator (1969)
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
Directing:
- Juraj Herz
- Květa Lehovcová
- Vladimír Blažek
- Vladimír Bor
- Ladislav Fuks
- Ladislav Fuks
- Juraj Herz
Release Date:
Fri, Mar 14, 1969
Rating: 7.7/10 by 216 users
Alternative Title:
Der Leichenverbrenner - DE
L'incinérateur de cadavres - FR
De Lijkverbrander - NL
화장터 인부 - KR
크리메이터 - KR
Perfeksjonisten - NO
Country:
Czechoslovakia
Language:
Český
Runtime: 01 hour 41 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: based on novel or book, insanity, child murder, zoo, dark comedy, crematorium, exterminator, funeral director, nazi collaborationism, czech new wave, family killed, czech resistance, human zoo exhibit
Rating: 7.7/10 by 216 users
Alternative Title:
Der Leichenverbrenner - DE
L'incinérateur de cadavres - FR
De Lijkverbrander - NL
화장터 인부 - KR
크리메이터 - KR
Perfeksjonisten - NO
Country:
Czechoslovakia
Language:
Český
Runtime: 01 hour 41 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: based on novel or book, insanity, child murder, zoo, dark comedy, crematorium, exterminator, funeral director, nazi collaborationism, czech new wave, family killed, czech resistance, human zoo exhibit
Rudolf Hrušínský
Karel Kopfrkingl
Vlasta Chramostová
Lakmé / Dagmar
Jana Stehnová
Zina
Miloš Vognič
Mili
Ilja Prachař
Walter Reinke
Zora Božinová
Reinkeová
Eduard Kohout
Bettleheim
Jiří Lír
Strauss
Dimitri Rafalsky
Fenek
Jan Vlček
Vrána
Václav Halama
Pelikán
Jiří Hálek
Rámar Holý
Václav Kotva
Josífek Zajíc
Míla Myslíková
Silly Woman
Vladimír Menšík
Silly Woman's Husband
Jiří Menzel
Dvorak
Václav Štekl
Musician / Box Referee / Panopticon Owner
Nataša Gollová
Madam in the Massage Parlor
Jindřich Narenta
Nazi in Smoking Suit
Helena Anýžová
Pale Girl
Jana Šulcová
Blushing Girl
Jan Řeřicha
The Bachelor of the Unruly Girl
Oldřich Vízner
Kája
Carmen Mayerová
Lisková
Libuše Pešková
Podzimková
Růžena Vlčková
Anezka
Marie Rosůlková
Woman Demanding a Casket
Věra Vlčková
Prostitute
Rudolf Iltis
Stein
František Kubíček
Beran
Erich Fichtner
Crematory Manager
Jiřina Bílá
Pracharova (uncredited)
Jan Kraus
Vojtík Prachar
Josef Kemr
Fenek (voice)
Jiří Němeček
Nazi in Smoking Suit
Vladimír Čech
Crematory Manager (voice)
This film blew me away. It's done in the style of a beautiful tone poem. Yet, the subject is the horror of ethnic cleansing. The juxtaposition is riveting.
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