Juraj Herz directs Rudolf Hrušínský, Vlasta Chramostová and Jana Stehnová in this Czech satire where a crematorium worker rises up the ranks by selling out everyone close to him to the Nazi regime.

A delve into a sick mind. Sleazy montage crash cuts. Repugnant morals given the sheen of mundane respectability. Pretty much entirely filmed with a fish eye lens, which only adds to the grotesque central caricature’s monstrous world view. We are all in cages, all fucking the dead, all justifying our evils. Am I right? Is this thing on? Bleak.

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Perfect Double Bill: Closely Observed Trains (1966)

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