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The Cremator (Czech: Spalovač mrtvol) is a 1969 Czechoslovak dark comedy horror film directed by Juraj Herz, based on a novel by Ladislav Fuks. The screenplay was written by Herz and Fuks. The film was selected as the Czechoslovakian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Blending the blackest of gallows humor with disorienting expressionistic flourishes—queasy point-of-view shots, distorting lenses, jarring quick cuts—the controversial, long-banned masterpiece The Cremator is one of cinema’s most trenchant and disturbing portraits of the banality of evil.
《焚尸人》The Cremator，1969. 捷克斯洛伐克 在华沙公约组织（Warsaw Pact）的军队进军布拉格一年后， 尤拉伊·赫兹的怪诞故事中处处洋溢着令人窒息的压迫感，和略带黑色荒诞主义的幽默。
Aug 7, 2019 · “The Cremator,” adapted from a novel by Ladislav Fuks, is a disquieting mix of satire and horror, filled with inexplicable characters seen in fragmentary close-ups or through distorted lenses.
The Cremator: Directed by Juraj Herz. With Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová, Milos Vognic. Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
Holocaust survivor Juraj Herz’s fiercely creepy The Cremator is a disorienting character study closely following a Czech cremator’s seduction into Nazism; carefully linking his initially unassuming behaviours to his eventual delirium and imposing nature as he’s gripped by delusion and despotism. Stanislav Milota’s incredible ...
Directed by Juraj Herz • 1969 • Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of totalitarian ideologies stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologically morbid Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium manager in 1930s Prague who believes fervently that death offers the only ...
Jun 10, 2020 · Synopsis. Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of totalitarian ideologies stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologically morbid Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium director in 1930s Prague who believes fervently that death offers the only true relief from human suffering.
The Cremator. Directed by Juraj Herz • 1969 • Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of totalitarian ideologies stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologically morbid Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium manager in 1930s Prague who believes fervently ...
Apr 22, 2020 · O ne of the true dark glories of the Czechoslovak New Wave, The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969) is the most popular and indelible work by the underappreciated Juraj Herz and remained a firm favorite of the director’s among his many films. Certainly, this ultimate exercise in ferocious black-comic satire—the tale of a crematorium manager ...
