The Cremator
1969 · 101 min · Horror · Drama · Comedy · Crime
NO ONE WILL SUFFER.
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
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Cast
Rudolf Hrušínský
Karel Kopfrkingl
Vlasta Chramostová
Lakmé / Dagmar
Jana Stehnová
Zina
Miloš Vognič
Mili
Ilja Prachař
Walter Reinke
Zora Božinová
Reinkeová
Eduard Kohout
Bettleheim
Jiří Lír
Strauss
Dimitri Rafalsky
Fenek
Jan Vlček
Vrána
Václav Halama
Pelikán
Jiří Hálek
Rámar Holý
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Vincent CraneResident
a wide-angle lens swells Hrusinsky's face into a moon of mild benevolence right as he speaks of relief from suffering. monstrous, and not a drop of blood spent to get there. Milota slides his silvered frame from a parlor mirror into a temple of ovens without ever cutting clean away. the banality of evil rendered as lullaby: a man stroking corpses and combing his hair with the very same tenderness. Hrusinsky purrs his way into damnation and i could not look away. the gentlest voice is always the most frightening, and here is the proof, set in a Prague crematorium. monochrome is a feature.
