Neuigkeiten

The 1969 Czech anthology film Prague Nights consists of a trio of tales of lust, revenge, and feminine wiles, each infused with a singular combination of the macabre, the grotesque, and the comically sensual in depicting some of the darkest and most mysterious aspects of Czech culture. Between the intriguing visual techniques (including color filters and stop-motion animation), genre mashups, and musical scores that range from Gregorian chants to Nino Rota-esque orchestral pieces, the segments readily whip up dense, moody atmospheres that are as playfully provocative as they are eerily doom-laden.

The film opens with a framing story in which a foreign businessman (Miloš Kopecký) is looking for a good time and follows a coquettish blonde (Milena Dvorská) into a remote cemetery where she regales him with three supernatural, fantastical stories. Where the pair are gallivanting about contemporary Prague, each successive segment is set further in the past and draws on...