FREE ON YOUTUBE Juraj Herz - The Cremator (engl. subt.)

FREE ON YOUTUBE (YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES FREE ON YOUTUBE) This is the story of a man who is driven to the peak of his career by the spirit of his time. Everything happens by itself; he gets a huge crematorium with massive ovens and all the facilities for mass burning. It is the story of a man who believes he feels the drop of German blood strengthening in him. Even the problem of his beloved half-Jewish wife and children seems solvable to him... Prague, end of the 30s. Karl Kopferkingl leads an orderly life in which everything has its place. He loves his family and his work of cremating corpses. Thanks to his Buddhist faith, the cremator is convinced that it shortens the path to the Kingdom of Heaven to be cremated in 90 minutes instead of time-consuming rotting in a coffin. When the Biedermann hears about the successes of a certain German party at the same time, he considers whether he really has already made enough people happy? The horror sneaks up on us deliberately in Juraj Herz's second film. In passing, the monstrosity behind the façade of the pestering citizen is unleashed - with success, because we have long been in his head! The fascism parable involves us in the events, even deceives us, because we become accomplices. How mean can cinema be? Juraj Herz tells this grotesque story using the typical means of Eastern European cinema of the 1960s; a mixture of theatrical irony and bloated film technology. A cinema that sets its own limits. The Cremator in the pretty DVD edition of the label Bildstörung is one of the greatest discoveries in our video library! In the staircase area I have set up a film series with films of the Eastern European new wave of the 60s. For the geek: Please watch them all! Each of them is really worth it!