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Joseph Killian

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  • Where: Lucerna, Vodičkova 36 – Štěpánská 61, Prague 1
  • When: February 29, 2016, 19:30 – 20:30

Ceremonial presentation of the latest volume of the Works of Pavel Juráček, combined with a screening of restored copies of his films Joseph Killian and Case for a Rookie Hangman.

“In Husova St. in the Old Town a caretaker sits in the sun and reads and he passes by her, crossing to the shade on the other side, he has his hands in his pockets and sees nothing, despite the other pedestrians raising their heads and fixing their eyes on one spot.

But eventually he too looks in that direction, remains standing and blankly stares upwards at a company sign on which his written CAT RENTAL.

What is this nonsense, Cat Rental, for Christ’s sake, what is this nonsense? You wander the city and suddenly you run into nonsense that’s out of reach! So he reaches up to the frame of the shop window, looks at photographs of cats, reads the name of the person in charge, looks inside haltingly and touches the handle, why not, what can happen, he presses the handle and enters…”

Event taking place in cooperation with the National Film Archive.

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