Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

1970-07-03 Czechoslovakia 102 Min. PG-13
6.8 23 votes

Overview

Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.

Cast

Lubomír Kostelka is Lemuel Gulliver
Lemuel Gulliver
Luděk Kopřiva is Vilém Seid
Vilém Seid
Slávka Budínová is Vilma Seidová
Vilma Seidová
Pavel Bošek is docent Baux
docent Baux
František Holar is Vedoucí dobrovolník
Vedoucí dobrovolník
Věra Ferbasová is Munodiová