Krakatit

I can count in one single hand Czech pictures in my collection, when Krakatit reach at me as Science Fiction drawing my attention his provenance due I had a fabulous "Ikarie XB1" which is high gold standard, however Krakatit overcomes it in many levels, where a scientist Prokop (Karel Hoger) was found unconscious and seriously wounded at Praga's hospital as unknown man, during his grievous treatment he was lost in all sort of hallucinations in the meandering ways of a sick mind, he meets many people who wants got his successful formula of the Krakatit a kind of dusty with a explosive power, an analogy of a nuclear bomb, for military purposes, he didn't agreed such offers, he wandering for through many places looking for his former classmate Jiri Tomes (Miroslav Homola) to delivers a letter gave by an unknown woman, during this journey portrayed on surrealism format on gloomy atmosphere, where many things no make sense, the director supposedly imposes in the picture a character akin with Hitler, an anti-war picture when the final sequence an old man suggesting him a peaceful use of dangerous Krakatit, he at long last he perceives that can developing and driven this energy, to warm and enlighten the mankind, also well photographed on bright black and white at glorious way, near masterpiece!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 9.25