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Jara Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
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Original name: Jára Cimrman ležící, spící
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher).
Style:
mockumentary, ironic, witty, cult classic, light hearted, period piece, parody, spoof, metafiction, whimsical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, irreverent, pun, national identity, character study, small town, hunting, writers, female nudity, explorer, research, rabbit, museum, flashback, anton chekhov, dead rabbit
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
central europe
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