Horror Story

1h 39m

6.1

The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.

Cast

Ondřej Pavelka

Paseka / Master / Fragonard

Klára Jirsáková

Raoul Schránil

Prince Pedro di Rudibanera

Vladimír Marek

Veronika Freimanová

Jiřina Jelenská

Rudolf Hrušínský

Barbora Leichnerová

Jaromír Dulava

Barbora Hrzánová

Jitka Asterová

Kateřina Frýbová

Anna Kocourková

Hanička's Grandfather

Jiří Bartoška

Milan Šteindler

Fugitive Madman

Vlastimil Bedrna

Bořivoj Navrátil

Captain Rodriguez

Martinus Soedjoko

Rudolf Hrušínský

Jiřina Třebická

Salvation Army Agent, Unknown

Stanislav Hájek

Mother Superior

Miriam Kantorková

Jan Antonín Duchoslav

Tereza Brabcová

Václav Marhoul

Ludmila Michalová

Zdenka Žerská

Sylvie Krobová

Jarmila Bělíková

Ladislav Klepal

Petr Voříšek

Ladislav Horáček

Lubomír Švehelka

Zdeněk Dragoun

Jindřich Špicner

Tamara Nathová

Zuzana Sixtová

Alena Zemančíková

Frantisek Stupka

Karel Vávrovec

František Jákl

Viktor Červenka

Jindřich Klaus

Karel Augusta ml.

Zdeněk Dvořáček

Milan Slepička

Pirate / Bandit

Jaroslav Pšenička

Dimo Lipitkovský

Miloslav Císař

Miroslav Fantyš

Martin Dušátko

Antonín Češpivo

Vlastimil Přáda

Daniel Soedjoko

Albatrus Deck Hand (uncredited)

Naďa Šafratová

Rudibanerová (uncredited)

Tall Boy (uncredited)

Růžena Černušáková

Ghost (uncredited)

Ghost (uncredited)

Vladimír Živný

Outcast (uncredited)

Alena Štréblová

Puppeteer (uncredited)

Crew

Jimmy Jib Operator

Jaroslav Brabec

Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Co-Producer, Art Direction

Editor, Story Consultant

Assistant Editor

Vladimír Altman

First Assistant Director

First Assistant Director

Lucie Minaříková

Second Assistant Director

Miroslav Voštiar

Čestmír Kopecký

Production Assistant

František Vokřál

Production Design

Vladimír Murat

Assistant Camera

Vladimír Křepelka

Assistant Camera

Steadicam Operator

Katarína Hollá

Miroslava Kopecká

Jaroslava Fišerová

Jaroslav Kolman

Tamara Koubová

Miloslav Jandera

František Pilný

Jitka Zvirocká

Jaroslav Schreder

Mstislav Pilný

Sound Assistant

Miroslav Šnábl

Jaromír Franta

Antonín Weiser

Aleš Boštička

Original Music Composer

Aranka Válová

Production Accountant

Ivana Jenčová

Jaromír Vaverka

Construction Grip

Construction Grip

Still Photographer

Technical Advisor

Technical Advisor

Olga Hanzlíková

Script Supervisor

Zdeněk Čermák

Bohumil Havlíček

Stanislav Krejča

Property Master

Zdeněk Janeček

Assistant Production Design

Jaroslav Koubek

Assistant Production Design

Assistant Production Design

Josef Černušák

Radek Faltejsek

Lucie Hertlová

Production Manager

Production Manager

Kateřina Pávová

Ivana Šustová

Romana Brožková