Original title: Ucho
Year: 1970
Runtime: 93 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English (.idx/.sub)
Genre: Drama | Political Horror Parable
Director: Karel Kachyna
Cast:
Anna – Jirina Bohdalova
Ludvik – Radoslav Brzobohaty
Gustav Opocensky
Miroslav Holub
Borivoj Navratil
Jiri Cisler
Jaroslav Moucka
Plot/Synopsis:
A couple, of which the man has a high rank in the Party, returns home after a party, to discover not only that the electricity has been cut off, but also that his superiors are going to be replaced. In a growing state of paranoia, mixed with a strong sense of humor, the couple senses that their house is bugged by the State Police (The EAR) and when at dawn the telephone rings they are prepared for the worst, but it is still worse than that.
Although made in 1970, The Ear (Ucho) was immediately banned by the Czech authorities and remained unseen for twenty years, being finally released only after the Velvet Revolution took place in Czechoslovakia. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship.
Viewed even now, The Ear has not lost any of its sting. As a warning it is even a vehement sting in our so-called i-freedom, threatened by so many bugs…
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