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

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"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?"