Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje (1984) - full transcript
A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.
Central Film Distribution
presents
THE PENDULUM, THE PIT AND HOPE
based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
and Villiers de I'lsle-Adam
Producers / Production Assistants
Animator / Actor
Editor / Camera
Screenplay / Designer / Director
"The sentence
- the dread sentence of death -
was the last of distinct accentuation
which reached my ears.
After that, the sound of the inquisitorial voices
seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum
It conveyed to my soul the idea of revolution -
perhaps from its association in fancy
with the burr of a mill wheel."
"What! My child! On the eve, perhaps,
of salvation... you would then leave us?"
presents
THE PENDULUM, THE PIT AND HOPE
based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
and Villiers de I'lsle-Adam
Producers / Production Assistants
Animator / Actor
Editor / Camera
Screenplay / Designer / Director
"The sentence
- the dread sentence of death -
was the last of distinct accentuation
which reached my ears.
After that, the sound of the inquisitorial voices
seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum
It conveyed to my soul the idea of revolution -
perhaps from its association in fancy
with the burr of a mill wheel."
"What! My child! On the eve, perhaps,
of salvation... you would then leave us?"