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Director
Josef Abrhám ml.
Production company
FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Director of photography
Tomáš Nováček
Editor
Jan Zajíček

Gag Anatomy

Anatomie gagu, Czech Republic, 2008, 20 min, HD

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An illustrative grotesque in which the protagonists repeatedly comment on a gag carried out. The film was inspired by an essay that Václav Havel wrote titled "Anatomy of a Gag" (1966), and it is the prelude to an inquiry into what a gag actually is, with responses provided by Luděk Sobota, Ladislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Svěrák, Vladimír Just and Karel Vachek, as well as Václav Havel, all of whom offer a different perspective on internal and external laughter, situation comedy, hyperbole, and the principle behind the moment we realise that something is comic and tragic at once.

Director:

Josef Abrhám ml.

Screenplay:

Josef Abrhám ml.

Director of photography:

Tomáš Nováček

Editor:

Jan Zajíček

Sound:

Ivan Horák, Anna Klapetková

Languages:

Czech