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The Flat

Director: Jan Švankmajer | 1968 | 13 min | 16mm | Without dialogue | with Juraj Herz, Ivan Kraus

A man, a Kafka-like character, is locked in between four. walls. The setting is poor: table, chair, some youth-pictures. He is completely isolated, there is no communication with the outside world. Every attempt to get into contact with outside fails. A mechanical Faust slings him back into isolation. The end: despair, resignation and pessimism.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Filmarchiv Schönecker.