The Junk Shop

The Junk Shop (1965)

Sběrné surovosti

Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.

Date of release
1965-12-17
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (15)
Runtime
31m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Juraj Herz

Casting

Interesting facts

The Junk Shop is a 1965 Czechoslovak comedic short film directed by Juraj Herz, based on a story by Bohumil Hrabal called Baron Prasil. It is the very first film made by the director. Though his very first film, it displays his knack for bizarre, disquieting and creepy visuals that will become more prominent throughout his career. This film was originally intended to be part of the anthology film Pearls of the Deep but it was excluded due to its running time being too long.

Production

This film was made as part of the anthology film Pearls of the Deep. The other directors of the film initially did not want Herz working on the project because he studied puppetry and not film with FAMU. Jaromil Jireš introduced this project as a group collaboration among his friends and personally vouched to them on behalf of Juraj Herz.

Bohumil Hrabal said this was his favorite story from the ones shot for the movie Pearls of the Deep. Hrabal gave him another story to film but the government censors would not permit it to be made.

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