A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man might have predicted.
Practical Effects
Stop-motion meat animations that will haunt your fridge.
Direction
Švankmajer's final film, pure unhinged vision.
Acting
Tříska's Marquis: charm so toxic it glows.
Director
Jan Švankmajer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Švankmajer loosely adapts Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade, two authors banned in communist Czechoslovakia during his formative years.
The film's meat obsession reflects Švankmajer's belief that organic decay reveals truth—institutions rot like flesh, and we are what we consume.
CZ
