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Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

In the 1990's people are able to make tourist trips to the past (if only).A group of aging Nazis, who are taking some pills to stay young, want to take advantage of that.They plan to travel back to 1944 (only they end up in 1941) and hand Adolf Hitler a hydrogen bomb.That way he would win WWII.Time travel pilot Karel Bures has been bribed to help them.But then Karel dies.He chokes on a croissant.And his twin brother Jan becomes him.Will he be able to stop the evil plan of these nasty Nazis? Or will the world suffer from Hitler's Thousand Year Reich? Jindrich Polák's Zítra Vstanu a Oparím Se Cajem (1977) is quite funny time travel movie.Its English title is Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea.Petr Kostka plays both Jan and Karel Bures.Jirí Sovák plays Klaus.Kraus is played by Vladimír Mensík.Valerie Chmelová plays Helena.I saw this movie on TV last night.I haven't seen too many Czechoslovakian movies in my life, but when I read the plot of this one, I just had to see it.The whole time travel theme has always fascinated me, ever since I saw Back to the Future.It's most enjoyable to watch those time travelers telling Hitler, and showing him some moving image, of how he will lose the war.Czechoslovakian time travel movie doesn't get too much better than this.

...I'll watch this film again. A side-splitting comedy with great puns, highly artistic visuals, and a plot that is a marvelous joke in itself.Much funnier than you'd ever expect from a movie that starts with a multiplied "Heil Hitler" line, this flick features a band of aging Nazi émigrés that somewhere in the future decide to travel back in time to give a hydrogen A-bomb to Hitler. The shambolic plot is held together by some of the best Czech acting of the decade (all of the main protagonists were in fact extremely accomplished stage and movie actors) and a never-ending flow of visual jokes and puns. When the Plan goes horribly, horribly wrong, threatening to choke the future with countless clones of not-so-retired Nazis, the paradoxes are mostly solved by exterminating either the copies or the originals ("Now, I'm going to kill myself"). The moment where the chief Nazi opens his portable A-bomb suitcase in the presence of Hitler, only to discover that the box now contains lingerie, is one of the greatest comedy moments in Czech cinematography. I remember watching the conspirators' faces on slow-mo a dozen times again, and again, and I just couldn't stop laughing.All the while, this movie has a touch of something greater than mere parody of time travel. As it is one of the last heirs of the inventive Czech New Wave, the movie's crew included many extremely skilled filmmakers, including T. Pistek, the maker of Amadeus' Oscar-awarded costumes.Overall, if you think you can stand European cinematography, and don't require your average movie to feature Brad Pitt clones, you probably won't be disappointed. This is one of the 20-or-so Czech productions that I'd rank as world quality movies. See the quotes for some of the innumerable cool lines.

I understand it was Saturday 16th January 1982 when I first saw this film. Dallas was on BBC 1 and Match of the Day wouldn't start for another half hour or so. So my brother and I decided to watch the beginning of this film on BBC 2 and then turn over for the football. Except we watched the whole thing. It really was that good.Fast forward to 2006 and I finally got a copy of the DVD in my grubby mitts. I had to get it from the Czech Republic but it's PAL and the same region as the UK. I watched it and couldn't believe just how much I remembered from over twenty years previously.Petr Koska is brilliant in his three roles: Jan Bures, Karel Bures and Jan pretending to be Karel. In this third role he improves his performance to the other characters as the film goes on because he has figured out how the plot should take shape after nearly mucking things up somewhat the first time round.For me, getting the DVD has been a delightful piece of nostalgia!

This is a film I saw just once on BBC2 on a Saturday night. In order not to watch Dallas I thought I'd watch the first half hour of the film and then turn over for Match of the Day. MotD never got a look in. The film had me laughing from the word go and made such an impression on my mind that I could still vividly remember scenes from it over a quarter of a century later. Today I received the DVD from a shop in the Czech Repbulic and am astounded at how well I remember the film. The plot centres around the plan by a group of former Nazis to travel back in time and give Hitler a hydrogen bomb and the attempt of the pilot to stop them. He is actually the twin brother of the pilot who should have been taking them but who had died choking on a bread roll. The immobilising spray and the washing up liquid were just as I remembered them. The American tourists were hammed up for all they were worth (it was made under communist rule after all). This is a very funny film and well worth the effort of ordering it from a website in a language I don't read.