Rudolf Hrušínský plays Karel Kopfrkingl, a dedicated employee of a Prague crematorium. Set in the early 1930s, Karel holds a warped respect for the work he does, regarding death as a way of liberating ...

Jay Liu is a writer and critic of film and culture hailing from the embattled city of Hong Kong. He was chosen twice to lead the official Cannes Classics x USC School of Cinematic Arts partnership, ...

The film, banned in Czechoslovakia upon its release in 1969, is being revived in a digital restoration at Metrograph. By J. Hoberman Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague in 1968 even as a dark comedy ...

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A black political farce from Czechosolvakia, centered on an employee of a crematorium whose growing mania for his job turns at first into the conviction that he is a divinely appointed “purifier” of ...

Another Asian film on undertakers following "Departures," "Make Up" and "Weight," "The Cremator" is slow to stir from its narrative coma and stiff perfs, before igniting a flicker of warmth via its ...