A lonely woman gets more than she bargained for when she begins wooing Mr Devil, an insatiable glutton who turns out to be the boyfriend from Hell.
Direction
Krumbachová's singular vision—no one else could've made this.
Acting
Menšík devours every scene, literally and figuratively.
Writing
Radio-play roots give it bite-sized surrealist perfection.
Director
Ester Krumbachová
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Krumbachová co-wrote Daisies but rarely directed—this is her solo feature debut, made after the Czech New Wave's golden window was slamming shut.
The 'Čert' name puns on 'devil' and 'black' in Czech, layering racial and moral coding that critics still argue about. The anti-consumerist satire targeted 1960s Czechoslovak economic reforms that briefly flirted with market socialism.
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