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The Ear Reviews

1970

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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
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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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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- - 8
  - 0
  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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- - 11
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  just zero
  
  there's nothing to say about this film... stopped watching in 5 minutes...
  
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- - sirgay
  - 3 reviews
  - London
  - 27 May 2008 at 13:47
- - 2
  - 0
  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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  - Edinburgh
  - 19 Mar 2008 at 09:15
- - 2
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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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  - 09 Jul 2007 at 22:38
- - 4
  - 3
  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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- - g5
  - 48 reviews
  - Bournemouth
  - 23 Jul 2006 at 09:18
- - 2
  - 1
  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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- - chungking
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  - 01 Jul 2006 at 22:45
- - 5
  - 0
  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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  - Little Snivellingham, Mudford
  - 16 Jun 2006 at 02:51
- - 8
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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 »
  
  Report this review
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- - a customer
  - , SOHO, LONDON
  - 21 Oct 2005 at 17:15
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- - 8
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 164279
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - , SOHO, LONDON
  - 21 Oct 2005 at 17:15
- - 11
  - 9
  just zero
  
  there's nothing to say about this film... stopped watching in 5 minutes...
  
  Report this review
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- - sirgay
  - 3 reviews
  - London
  - 27 May 2008 at 13:47
- - 5
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 255006
- - a customer
  - Little Snivellingham, Mudford
  - 16 Jun 2006 at 02:51
- - 4
  - 3
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 266914
- - g5
  - 48 reviews
  - Bournemouth
  - 23 Jul 2006 at 09:18
- - 2
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 542020
- - a customer
  - Edinburgh
  - 19 Mar 2008 at 09:15
- - 2
  - 1
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 259940
- - chungking
  - 101 reviews
  - London
  - 01 Jul 2006 at 22:45
- - 2
  - 1
  Like
  
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 457086
- - a customer
  - London
  - 09 Jul 2007 at 22:38

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