Burglar and Umbrella
Burglar and Umbrella
| 09 April 1971 (USA)
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In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and it is apparent that the moment before she opened the door of her flat, someone fled through the window. Umbrella is summoned for examination to the head of the criminal police - Police Councilman Vacátko Jaroslav Marvan, but although shocked by the photograph of the dead man, she does not confess to anything. Before Toufar, Umbrella lived with the safe-breaker Penicka (Radoslav Brzobohatý), who loved her very much and made her quit her street trade. But when he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, Umbrella began to live with the brute Toufar, who chased her to street again. In the case of the murder, Penicka is therefore the prime suspect.

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Ehirerapp

Waste of time

Breakinger

A Brilliant Conflict

Voxitype

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Invaderbank

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Karel K.

This movie is one of four films-continuators of TV series Sinful People of the city of Prague (Hrisní lidé mesta prazského), a collection of stories about the crimes and criminologists (with the legendary chief of the investigators Vacátko (Jaroslav Marvan performs him in this full-length pictures too.). This movie is not only an investigation of the murder but it's also o portrait of the "femme fatale" from the periphery (Paraplícko, Little Brolly) and the safe-breaker Penicka who is her lover. So this is wonderful psychological movie with criminal plot. Movie has a great atmosphere of old Prague full of bizarre people and small figures. This half-world is stylized as the world of strange poetics: the criminals sing and dance in dirty pub Poison Chanty, live along their own rules and has their specific fashion and language. It's one of the most interesting Czech mysteries!

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