CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1962
The Devil's Trap posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1962 1h 25m CZE

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Vláčil expands the same austere, tactile medieval world into a fragmented, poetic chronicle, with stark black-and-white landscapes and an overpowering sense of faith, violence, and fate.

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Another severe Vláčil historical vision: elemental settings, religious zeal, and tense moral conflict are rendered with the same spare dialogue and sculptural monochrome imagery.

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Its methodical depiction of superstition turned into institutional cruelty carries the oppressive spiritual atmosphere and quietly escalating dread that make The Devil’s Trap so unsettling.

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For the same chilling collision of ritual, warped belief, and authoritarian menace, presented in a far more expressionistic but equally controlled visual style.

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Its desolate black-and-white landscapes and near-wordless, ritual-like journey preserve the elemental severity and haunting visual patience of Vláčil’s film.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Vlastimil Hašek

Josef Hlinomaz

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Miroslav Macháček

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