The Limping Devil

Story

Synopsis

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...

Director

Juraj Herz

Writers

Bedřich Kubala, Alain-René Lesage, Juraj Herz

Language

Czech

Country

Czechoslovakia

Release date

13 September 1968

Ensemble

Cast

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  Juraj Herz

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  Václav Neckář

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  Jana Šulcová

• Oľga Šalagová

  Nurse Kateřina

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  František Zvarík

  Head Physician Rudolf

• Václav Štekl

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  Yvonne Přenosilová

• Robert Morávek

• Jaroslav Neduha

• Josef Bartoš

• Karel Linc

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  Jiří Lír