Jiří Musil

チェコ・シュルレアリスムグループの創始者である詩人ビーチェスラフ・ネズバルの小説「少女バレリエと不思議な一週間」を、チェコ・ヌーベルバーグの映画作家ヤロミール・イレッシュが映画化し、ゴシックロリータ映画の最高峰として現在に至るまでカルト的人気を集め続ける1969年製作の異色ファンタジー。厳格な祖母と2人きりで暮らす美少女バレリエ。ある日、村にやって来た旅一座の中に不気味な怪物を見た彼女は、奇妙な悪夢に悩まされるように。それ以来、バレリエの周囲で不思議な出来事が次々と起こりはじめる。

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...

A short film about traditional crafts and culture that can still be found in the Wallachian mountains today.