A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be.
Practical Effects
Taxidermy animals and meat puppets that genuinely move wrong.
Direction
Svankmajer's obsessions made tactile and terrifying.
Sound
Every creak and clatter designed to unnerve.
Director
Jan Švankmajer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Svankmajer made this during Communist Czechoslovakia's final years; the bureaucratic absurdity and dead-end corridors mirror living under an oppressive system.
Kristýna Kohoutová was 10 and spoke no English — she learned her lines phonetically for the dub, adding to Alice's uncanny detachment.
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