The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Ratings
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Jiří WeissScreenplay
- Jiří WeissDirector
- Zdeněk LiškaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Květa FialováAlice Pokorná
- Rudolf HrušínskýFrantišek Pokorný
- Václav VoskaNámestek
- Vladimír MenšíkEmil
- Jindřich NarentaRedítel
- Libuše ŠvormováJindriská
- František ŠlégrVrátný
- Jaroslav SolničkaCast
- Věra UzelacováBindrová
- Milivoj UzelacCast
- Luďa MarešováCast
- Gabriela Bártlová-BuddeusováCast