Rent The White Dove / Josef Kilian (1963)
3.8 of 5 from 58 ratings
1h 54min
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- Synopsis:
- The debut feature of master filmmaker Frantisek Vlacil (Marketa Lazarova), The White Dove's straightforward narrative belies complex themes and striking visual imagery. A young boy injures and then nurses a white dove back to health. Echoing Ken Loach's film Kes and with music by the great Zdenek Liska, the film emerges as a work of great poetry and humanism. The surrealist Josef Kilian is a darkly-humorous allegory of life under a totalitarian regime. Inspired by two icons of Czech literature, the anti-authoritarian Jaroslav Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk) and the renowned Franz Kafka, the film was suppressed by Czech authorities after the Soviet invasion of 1968.
- Actors:
- Katerina Irmanovová, Karel Smyczek, Gustav Püttjer, Vjaceslav Irmanov, Hans-Peter Reinicke, Frantisek Kovárík, Vladimir Erlebach, Anna Pitasová, Ladislav Fialka, Pavel Kocanda, Petr Kocanda, Jirí Patocka, Pavel Bartl, Pavel Silhánek, Stanislav Michler, Consuela Morávková, Ivan Ruzicka, Karel Vasicek
- Directors:
- František Vlácil, Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt
- Writers:
- Otakar Kirchner, František Vlácil, Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt
- Aka:
- Holubice / Postava k podpírání
- Studio:
- Second Run
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 1, Top 10 Czech Films, Top Films
- Countries:
- Czechoslovakia
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