
Film
When the Cat Comes
- Director
- Vojtech Jasny
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 91 mins
A magician and his bespectacled cat arrive in a small Czech village as part of a travelling circus. When the furry beast’s specs are removed, it can paint people, quite literally, in their true colours. So cheats appear grey, adulterers yellow, and so on.
https://youtu.be/amqeJZeoaJc
Released under a number of titles (Az Prijde Kocour, The Cassandra Cat, etc) but rarely screened today, this jolly Czech fantasy bagged the Special Jury Prize at Cannes back in 1963. The Soviets, however, were not so pleased at its thinly-veiled critique of totalitarianism and promptly banned the film after their 1968 invasion.
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