Murder Czech Style
90 mins
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
František Šlégr
Vrátný
Věra Uzelacová
Bindrová
Jan Turek
First Assistant Director
Václav Polák
Assistant Director
Jan Otčenášek
Story
Karel Hejsek
Camera Operator
Pavel Nečesal
Assistant Camera
Miloš Sršeň
Set Decoration
Jarmila Romanová
Costumer
Anna Blažková
Costumer
Otakar Košťál
Makeup & Hair
Marie Zedníková
Makeup & Hair
Ladislav Smrčka
Makeup & Hair
Ladislav Hausdorf
Sound
Jiří Pokorný
Production Manager
Jaroslav Solnička
Unit Production Manager
Vlasta Synkulová
Unit Production Manager
Miroslav Smrček
Assistant Production Manager
František Belfín
Conductor
Miloš Brož
Creative Producer
Karel Feix
Executive Producer
Helena Pokorná
Script
Marie Koubková
Clapper Loader
Jan Němeček
Director of Photography
Zdeněk Liška
Original Music Composer
Miroslav Hájek
Editor
Karel Lier
Production Design
Josef Calta
Set Decoration
Zdena Kadrnožková
Costume Design