Episode 647: The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)

The Projection Booth

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

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

On this special Czechtember episode we’re looking at Oldrich Lipsky’s 1981 film The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians. Based on the novel by Jules Verne from 1892, the film tells the story of Count Teleke of Toloko (Michal Docolomanský), a blowhard opera singer who, along with his manservant, stop by the village of where he learns about the nearby Devil’s Castle which is said to be haunted.
Jonathan Owen and Emily Barney join Mike to discuss this off-beat adaptation (and the other three adaptations of the same story around the same time.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.9	Oh! Ushasne.
0:42.6	In the Vichnese N'ixteckas
0:45.3	things.
0:47.2	Where is?
0:48.5	Who,
0:49.3	Pane?
0:50.2	Vona.
0:51.3	Zahadies,
0:52.3	hruze,
0:53.3	tajomstv. And it's all because Zahadies, Hruzzi,
0:55.1	tiamstvah.
0:56.5	And it's all because
0:57.6	Oper.
1:01.4	Odhaltte
1:02.1	the
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