Episode 342: Happy End (1966)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up the first Czechtember series with a film from director Oldrich Lipský, 1966's Happy End, an experimental comedy (which is as unusual as that sounds) that puts scenes in opposite order and runs motion backward from the death of our main character (Vladimír Menšík) while he gives the voice-over account of life from birth. Of course, this provides us with constant ironic juxtapositions.
The film was co-written by Lipský and Milos Macourek, the screenwriter behind some of the best comedies out of Czechoslovakia in the '60s and '70s.
Kat Ellinger and Ben Buckingham join Mike to discuss Happy End and other favorite Czech comedies.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:23.6	How much? What I'm actually I'm going to say, Natalia, or Eulalia?
0:26.6	It's too long and life is so kind of
0:29.6	life is so kind of.
0:32.6	I've got it.
0:34.6	Julie, Julie, Julie, I'm, I'm as a creator, like a book, and then I'm. Yule, Julie, Julie, I'm, I'm as a creator,
0:39.3	like a book,
0:40.3	and then I was
0:42.3	for the whole life.
0:44.3	I'm going to
0:45.3	Rzeznike. Welcome to the projection booth.
1:03.0	I'm here I'm here.
1:13.8	Welcome to the projection booth.
1:14.9	I'm your host, Mike White.
1:17.1	Joining me once again is Ms. Kat Ellinger.
1:19.7	Hello, glad to be back so soon.
1:22.5	Also back with me today is Mr. Ben Buckingham.
1:23.8	Hello, everyone.
1:28.6	We are wrapping up our first Czech Timber series with a film from director Oldrich Lipski, 1967's Happy End. The film is something of an experimental comedy, which is
1:35.1	as unusual as that sounds. The film runs scenes in opposite order and runs motion backwards
1:41.0	from the end of our main character's life when he gives voiceover from
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