Pearls of the Deep (Perlicky na dne). Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš, 1966.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave 4-DVD set, released 2012. Czech language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 107 minutes.
Summary: One of the five segments shows various stages of hide tanning.
Details:
The House of Joy is set in the home of a tanner, with numerous images of goat and rabbit skins in various stages of skinning and curing 40:12-43:20, and again 57:19-58:37. This last sequence ends with the tanner transporting a large dead dog on his bicycle, with a leashed small dog ominously coming along as well. (The individual films run as one continuous presentation, with the 23-minute The House of Joy running 36:50-59:29.)
This omnibus presentation includes a 2-minute introduction and five short films based on stories by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal:
Mr. Baltazar’s Death (24 minutes, Jiří Menzel)
The Imposters (11 minutes, Jan Němec)
The House of Joy (23 minutes, Evald Schorm)
The Restaurant the World (24 minutes, Věra Chytilová)
Romance (24 minutes, Jaromil Jireš)