Oldrich Lipsky's one-of-a-kind black comedy employs an ingenious twist - telling the life story of a condemned murderer entirely in reverse: from his 'birth' at the guillotine, to his 'departure' as an infant. Utilising the techniques of silent cinema, the film plays with the flow of cinematic time to audacious effect. This wildly inventive and disarmingly hilarious Czech film predates the use of reverse-chronology narratives in more celebrated fiction, theatre and Hollywood cinema. Upending the usual narrative flow, 'Happy End' is a darkly surreal Dadaist delight.
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