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Otrantsky zamek
18 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1977
Combined
Audience: adults
Commentary: synchronised

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Designer: Jan Svankmajer

The film is based on an important work of the world's literature, the first so-called gothic novel by Horacio Walpole. The story is narrated in an ironic quasi-documentary form as a reconstruction of a real event that happened many years ago. The film is dedicated to all researchers that based their lives on mystification.

All films directed by Jan Svankmajer:
Coffin Factory • Darkness, Light, Darkness • Dimensions of Dialogue • Et cetera • The Fall of The House of Usher • The Flat • Manly Games • The Otrants Castle • The Pendulum, the Pit and the Hope • A Quiet Week in a House

All films designed by Jan Svankmajer:
Coffin Factory • Darkness, Light, Darkness • Dimensions of Dialogue • Et cetera • The Fall of The House of Usher • The Flat • Manly Games • The Otrants Castle • The Pendulum, the Pit and the Hope • A Quiet Week in a House