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Kinoautomat

RADÚZ CINCERA , JÁN ROHÁC , VLADIMIR SVITÁCEK
Czech Republic, 1967, 63 minutes, Color and Black & White, film website
In Person: Alena Cincerova, daughter of Director Radúz Cincera

A special Filmfest DC event featuring the American premiere of the world's first interactive film! It will be up to you, the audience, to determine the next scene in the plot by means of voting buttons. Part film and part performance, Kinoautomat has been retrofitted with a new onscreen "host," who appears at strategic points to cajole the audience into choosing how the story will unfold. The plot concerns apartment dweller Mr. Novak, who intends to celebrate his wife's birthday. An encounter with nearly-naked next-door-neighbor Mrs. Svoboda sets in motion all manner of zany complications. This genuinely amusing comedy nicely embodies 1960s social mores, wringing "scandalous" slapstick out of situations that today hardly raise an eyebrow. A wild car chase through the beautiful medieval streets of Prague contrasts humorously with the once-fashionable ultra-modern apartment building as a delightful statement of changing tastes.—Dave Nuttycombe

Dubbed in English

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