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The Ear
1970
A couple from Czechoslovakia suffer from intense paranoia when news reaches them that one of the husband's superiors has been arrested. Their fears are heightened when it appears that they are being watched... Read more
| Starring | Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohaty |
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| Director | Karel Kachyna |
| Genres | Drama |
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A skilled but claustrophobic domestic and political drama, which is partly filmed in semi-darkness to emphasize its atmosphere of betrayal, guilt and general malaise; though when characters emerge into the light it is for a sinister purpose.
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- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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A PIECE OF THE OLD PRAGUE
This film is typical of a bunch of films made between about 1959 - 1970 in Czechoslovakia, and which were subject to withdrawls by the Communist Government. ... read more »
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- 21 Oct 2005 at 17:15
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Tight and economical
This is a really concise examinaton of the situation experienced by a communist apparatchik whose boss has just disappeared and who thinks he may be next. The ... read more »
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I have to give this a top rating for the simple reason that it is the only film I have ever seen that unequivocally challenges the Soviet totalitarian system. (... read more »
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Not the best.
This is a democracy propaganda film created during an anti-socialist uprise in Prague, which was later quelled by Soviet tanks. I find the history interesting... read more »
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It's like Kafka
A well made examination of the corrosive nature of a totalitarian state on the human psyche. A couple tear each other apart emotionally wondering if they’... read more »
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Fear and Loathing in Czechoslovakia
Shadow and anxiety permeate 'The Ear', a portrait of a middle-ranking government official and his wife in a tightly monitored Prague, before the '... read more »
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A PIECE OF THE OLD PRAGUE
This film is typical of a bunch of films made between about 1959 - 1970 in Czechoslovakia, and which were subject to withdrawls by the Communist Government. ... read more »
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