Dead Beetle

Dead Beetle
Mrtvej brouk

Czech Republic / 1998 / 97 min
Fiction / Debut

Dead Beetle
Mrtvej brouk

Czech Republic / 1998 / 97 min
Fiction

This feature debut by Pavel Marek, the much acclaimed creator of surrealistic short films, is a bluntly comic description of a young man in crisis. After a short stay at a psychiatric hospital he throws away a burgeoning relationship with a mentally traumatized girl for no sane reason. The film overcame its own tame cinematographic treatment by eliciting a convincing portrayal of the pathology of 'lost energy' evinced by the Generation X protagonist.

Cast / Jan Zuska , Martin Ježek , Hana Seidlová , Ondřej Malý , Pavla Jirásková , Jiří Macháček , Monika Černošková    Writer / Pavel Marek    Story / Pavel Marek    DoP / Diviš Marek    Editor / Alois Fišárek    Sound / Jan Čeněk    Music / David Koller , Michal Dvořák (II)

Release date / 26 February 1998

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