The White Lady (1965) Bílá paní
The White Lady (1965)
DVDRip | AVI | 512x368 | XviD @ 863 Kbps | 91 min | 695 Mb
Audio: Čeština AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (sub)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
DVDRip | AVI | 512x368 | XviD @ 863 Kbps | 91 min | 695 Mb
Audio: Čeština AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (sub)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Zdenek Podskalský
Writer: Karel Michal
Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Milos Kopecký
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White Lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White Lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.
This is a real rarity - a film that totally skewers the centrally-controlled system. The basic premise - to me - is how does a system that wants to control everyone and everything from gardens to belief in God deal with a phenomenon that contradicts their view of reality. Based on a real Czech folk legend (the White Lady being Perchta of Rozemberk) the film quickly takes off in some great directions. Hrusinsky, Bohdalova, Kopecsky and Brodsky are excellent, as is the rest of the cast. It took a while for me to get a hold of this one on DVD but it was well worth the wait. I rank this with other mid-60's Czech subversive films like Firemen's Ball and Who Wants to Kill Jessie?.
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