A thunderous standing ovation greeted Jiřina Bohdalová within the packed cinema of the Pupp Resort this Saturday. On the Karlovy Differ pageant, the 93-year-old actress offered a digitally restored movie by director Ester Krumbach known as The Homicide of Eng. Čerta from 1970. The movie was already seen by guests to a screening in Rotterdam within the Netherlands in January, and shortly after it returned to Czech cinemas.

“Ester Krumbachová was an unreal unique, she did the whole lot in that movie, she even made my garments. I do not know if she noticed herself in my character, however I do not forget that she put her head subsequent to me within the make-up store in order that I might appear to be her,” Jiřina Bohdalová recalled in Differ . “If, gents, somebody may see into your neck and soul, it was Ester, she uncovered you. I have never heard one thing so humorous and correct about males in a very long time,” added the actress.

Bohdalová and Vladimír Menšík performed the primary roles within the chamber tragicomedy a couple of lonely lady in her forties who invitations a good friend from her youth to dinner, however he doesn’t reply to the reminiscence.

The homicide of Mr. Satan cruelly, humorously and subtly works with gender stereotypes and quotations from varied tales and myths. Because of the starting of normalization, it remained the one movie directed by Ester Krumbachová. Artist, dramaturg and screenwriter, who lived from 1923 to 1996, however had an important function within the success of many dozens of works, particularly within the period of the Czechoslovak New Wave, for instance O slavnosti a hohost, Sedmikrásky, Valerie a tyden divů or Kladivo na charodějnice.

The unique picture and sound negatives saved within the Nationwide Movie Archive have been the supply for the digitization of The Homicide of Mr. Čerta. In cooperation with him and the State Cinematography Fund, he restored the movie straight Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Pageantdue to a donation from Milada Kučerová and businessman Eduard Kučera.

Home digitally restored movies have been returning to world reveals in recent times. For instance, final yr actor Jan Kačer and cameraman Ivan Šlapeta offered the digitally restored movie Each Day of Braveness directed by Evald Schorm on the Differ pageant. The Berlinale screened Daisies in its retrospective part, one among Věra Chytilová’s directorial highlights. In 2022, the pageant in Venice included in this system a digitally restored model of the psychological thriller Ucho by the writer duo Jan Procházka and Karel Kachyňa. The identical yr, the Berlinale once more offered Jiří Menzel’s restored Skrivánky on a thread. The well-known black-and-white movie by the Czech director Gustav Machaté Extas from 1932 received the prize for the very best restored work within the Venice Classics part on the Venice Movie Pageant in 2019.

Jiřina Bohdalová continues to behave in movies. Final month, the TV film Svatá, directed by Jiří Strach, premiered. In it, she performed the primary function of the very important pensioner Olga, who allegedly survived the horrors of the gulag and should take care of her previous. “What made me chuckle essentially the most was that I needed to be made older within the final function in Svatá,” mentioned Bohdalová in Differ this Saturday.

Video: Trailer from the movie The Homicide of Mr. Satan

Trailer from the digitally restored model of the film The Satan’s Homicide. | Video: Nationwide Movie Archive