2. Vojtěch Jasný: When the Cat Comes (a.k.a. Cassandra Cat - Až přijde kocour, 1963)



Screenplay: Vojtěch Jasný, Jiří Brdečka, Jan Werich. Director of photography: Jaroslav Kučera.
Music: Svatopluk Havelka. Cast: Jan Werich (Oliva/Magician), Emília Vášáryová (Diana), Vlastimil
Brodský (Teacher Robert), Jiří Sovák (school director), Vladimír Menšík (school janitor), Jiřina
Bohdalová (Julie), Vlasta Charmostová (Marjánka), Karel Effa (Janek).


An allegorical fantastic fable about hypocrisy, with satiric allusions to period political scene
was awarded by Prix special de Jury (ex aequo with Seppuku by Masaki Kobayashi, Japan) at Cannes
1963.


Assigned reading:


Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave: “Desire – Vojtěch Jasný”