PT Journal
AU Heczkova, L
   Svatonova, K
TI Ester's Murders: The Killing of Film and the Birth of Acinema
SO Iluminace
PY 2018
BP 29
EP 44
VL 30
IS 1
DI 10.58193/ilu.1550
WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201801-0002.php
DE Ester Krumbachova; Murdering the Devil; Czech new wave; normalisation culture
SN 0862397X
AB The study deals with the film Murdering the Devil (Vrazda ing. Certa, 1970), directed by costume designer Ester Kumbachova, and its various media mutations (film story, radio adaptation, screenplay). The film involves three elements - elaborate mise-en-scene, buzzing orality, philosophical humour - which present exciting traces of the intellectual and artistic life of Ester Krumbachova. This film was chosen precisely because it allows us to unravel the transitional period in which the creative atmosphere of the Sixties still lingered but the basic features of normalization were already prefigured. The study also aims to show the diversity of Krumbachova's work, the reasons why the film was not received well in its era and in what ways it can be important for current theoretical research.
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