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Je treba zabít Sekala / Sekal Has to Die (1998)

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Je treba zabít Sekala / Sekal Has to Die (1998)

Je treba zabít Sekala / Sekal Has to Die (1998)
DVDRip | MKV | 716 x 430 | AVC @ 1750 Kbps | 114 min | 1.55 Gb
Audio: Czech AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Russian (embedded), English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Czech Republic

During the hot summer of 1943 in the devoutly Catholic Moravian village of Lakotice (Czech for "stingy"), it falls to the new stranger, Protestant blacksmith Baran (the word for "ram"), to rid the town of Nazi collaborator and unrepentent bastard Sekal (which means "he was cutting"). Following his lauded 1996 drama Forgotten Light, director Vladimir Michalek continues his symbolic yet restrained probing of religion, complicity and betrayal in a rural setting, with the unexpected but triumphant addition of formal genre elements (gorgeous vistas, calibrated performances) straight out of Shane or early Clint Eastwood. "Evil has no weak spots," says the town's conflicted priest before the ritualized and inevitable finale, and neither does this provocative, masterful exploration of faith under stress – the Czech Republic's official Oscar submission – from one of the country's most accomplished contemporary filmmakers.

IMDB 7.6/10 from 646 users

Director: Vladimír Michálek
Writer: Jirí Krizan (story), Jirí Krizan (screenplay)
Actors: Olaf Lubaszenko, Boguslaw Linda, Jirí Bartoska, Agnieszka Sitek
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 114 min

As the full harvest of 1943 ripens under the summer sun in the rolling landscape around the fictitious Moravian village of Lakotice, a stranger steps off the train. The warmth and beauty of the scene hide belie the true nature of the place he has just stepped into. He's an outsider in more ways than one - he's a Protestant and this is a deeply Catholic area - and he also has a secret to hide.

The man is Jura Baran, played by Olaf Lubaszenko, the Polish actor whose last notable film role was the postboy in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Krotki film o milosci (A Short Film about Love, 1988). Baran (meaning "ram" in Czech) has heard that there is a blacksmith wanted in the village. He gets the job but his uncompromising character soon means that he has a run-in with the obnoxious character of Sekal, a local bastard, in both the formal and the abusive sense of the term.

The war suits Sekal and despite his less than fascist past, he uses Nazism to further his aims. Nothing can stand in his path as he goes about his blackmailing and extorting to earn him land and sexual favours. Such is the brutality of his rise to power that even Sekal's own father has to concede that Sekal has to die. If only the villagers can find someone who was prepared to do it.

Since Baran is the only person in the village who seems to be able to stand up to the tyranny of Sekal without quaking he is the obvious choice for the job. Just to make sure that he does agree the villagers apply a bit of blackmail just as viscous as anything Sekal would do. Tearing down a crucifix from the wall and slamming it on the table, Baran condemns these Catholic farmers for having "traded God in for a piece of wood."

Michalek's third film is an astonishingly mature piece of film-making, especially in the light of many of the trends in current Czech cinema, which veer away from giving any sort of weight to films. Michalek is assisted in his task by some wonderful talent: Lubaszenko deserves his award at from the Karlovy Vary film festival and fellow Pole Boguslaw Linda puts in an equally impressive performance.

Also note-worthy is the rich photography of the Slovak Martin Strba, who has also worked with Martin Sulik and Vlado Balco. The peaceful shots of picturesque rural Moravia in its full beauty do much to make the malignance of the village more poignant and the film is far more evocative of the nature of evil than a great many films I have seen which try to evoke it through jack-boots and soldiers rushing maniacally everywhere with machine-guns.

Je treba zabít Sekala / Sekal Has to Die (1998)

Je treba zabít Sekala / Sekal Has to Die (1998)

Je treba zabít Sekala / Sekal Has to Die (1998)

Je treba zabít Sekala / Sekal Has to Die (1998)


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