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THE UNINVITED GUEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n He knocks on a couple\u2019s door at night and hauls in his suitcase. He knows what people are like, and he knows what is what; just don\u2019t ask where he\u2019s from. Such are the times; accept it. At first the couple oppose the stranger, but it turns out that They are everywhere. They watch and report. This one is pretty nice, actually\u2014he\u2019ll be like a brother, a friend\u2026<\/p>\n Vencl\u00edk made this film while studying at Prague\u2019s Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). The initial idea was to make a humorous spoof of the Czech tendency to adapt to circumstances as a means of survival, much like J. Ha\u0161ek\u2019s comic literary hero, \u0160vejk, does. But this film was made just one year after the Prague Spring\u2014the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia\u2014and the work was seen as an insurgency against the ruling regime. Vencl\u00edk was subsequently expelled from the academy, which basically ruined his career, and The Uninvited Guest<\/i> remained in the State Security archives only because it had been labeled as an inconsequential item.<\/p>\n JOSEF KILI\u00c1N<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sunny old Prague. The crossroads of two cobbled streets\u2014to the right, a line of children speedily walks by under their teachers\u2019 escort; to the left, a column of soldiers marches by; to the right, two white horses pulling a hearse wagon lead a slow-moving funeral procession\u2026 Looking upwards instead of at this disciplined movement, stands a stately man. Soon he will understand nothing. Neither how to find Josef Kili\u00e1n\u2014to inform him about someone\u2019s death, nor how to get a certificate indicating that he has unsuccessfully tried to return a rented cat.<\/p>\n A satirical allegory of the submissive powerlessness of the individual in an authoritarian bureaucratic society. The protagonist\u2019s useless pursuit as he walks through labyrinths of streets, hallways, waiting rooms and stairwells has an absurd atmosphere that suggests a strong Kafkaesque influence. Yet P. Jur\u00e1\u010dek, the film\u2019s screenwriter and director, who above all else wanted to be a writer, had not yet read neither The Castle<\/i> nor The Trial<\/i>. 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