my-tv-is-dead: Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem aka Tomorrow I'll wake up and scald myself with tea (1977)

enough said

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates : Werner Herzog
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents : Orson Welles
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything : Andy Warhol
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that : Oliver Stone
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema : Serge Daney
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake : Alfred Hitchcock
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are : Robert Bresson
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls : Ingmar Bergman
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance : FrantOis Truffaut
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl : Jean-Luc Godard

Monday, January 31, 2011

Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem aka Tomorrow I'll wake up and scald myself with tea (1977)

This is one of the most clever and funny films ever made about time travel. A bunch of former nazis survive to the 90s as they use anti-aging medicine. They plan to change history of mankind by travelling back to the Second World Was and help Hitler. They will give him a nuclear bomb that they stole from a museum (does it really work actually?). They are collaborating with space pilot Karel but when the last one dies accidentally their plans are going to ruin.

All because of Karel's brother, John who is taking his place because he is in love with one of Karel's flirts. So funny situations begin when everything's going wrong back at Hitler's bunker in a period where Nazis were winning the war. Misunderstandings will give place to a humorous plot and John will try to escape from this death trap using the time travel spaceship. I can say this is an extraordinary obscure film from Czechoslovakia and director Jindrich Polák. Petr Koska is brilliant in his three roles: Jan Bures, Karel Bures and Jan pretending to be Karel. Well done!

2 comments:

the saucer peopleJanuary 11, 2012 at 6:46 AM
Totally agree with you, definitely one of the best time-travel films ever conceived and in my opinion, one of the best Czech films ever made (along with Saragossa Manuscript, Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders and Girl On A Broomstick)..its great that the Czech film account on YT has the option of English subtitles.

Never come across your blog before and already the categories have me drooling!

I just got a YT upgrade so I can post full films and I will be posting a lot of "communist" era Russian and Eastern European sci-fi, fantasy, horror and surreal films with English subtitles from that period so feel free to embed any that takes your fancy...account "jackamo23"
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RebusJanuary 16, 2012 at 5:07 AM
Thx for your kind words...we can share links about our blogs too ;) have fun!
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