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The Cremator
Directed by
Juraj Herz
Not Rated
1969
1h 41m
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Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
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Where to Watch The Cremator
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Cast of The Cremator
Rudolf Hrušínský
Karel Kopfrkingl
Vlasta Chramostová
Lakmé / Dagmar
Jana Stehnová
Zina
Miloš Vognič
Mili
Ilja Prachař
Walter Reinke
Zora Božinová
Reinkeová
Eduard Kohout
Bettleheim
Jiří Lír
Strauss
Dimitri Rafalsky
Fenek
Jan Vlček
Vrána
Václav Halama
Pelikán
Jiří Hálek
Rámar Holý
Václav Kotva
Josífek Zajíc
Míla Myslíková
Silly Woman
Vladimír Menšík
Silly Woman's Husband
Jiří Menzel
Dvorak
Václav Štekl
Musician / Box Referee / Panopticon Owner
Nataša Gollová
Madam in the Massage Parlor
Jindřich Narenta
Nazi in Smoking Suit
Helena Anýžová
Pale Girl
Jana Šulcová
Blushing Girl
Jan Řeřicha
The Bachelor of the Unruly Girl
Oldřich Vízner
Kája
Carmen Mayerová
Lisková
Libuše Pešková
Podzimková
Růžena Vlčková
Anezka
Marie Rosůlková
Woman Demanding a Casket
Věra Vlčková
Prostitute
Eva Ulincová
Rudolf Iltis
Stein
Josef Střecha
B. Mandausová
František Kubíček
Beran
Erich Fichtner
Crematory Manager
J. Hladký
Jiřina Bílá
Pracharova (uncredited)
Jan Kraus
Vojtík Prachar
Alfred Růžička
H. Absolonová
Alena Balejová
M. Baumrukerová
S. Brabcová
E. Brázdová
V. Handlová
Marie Hübschová
M. Jílková
J. Knollová
Yvona Odehnalová
J. Pacáková
H. Schlechtrová
J. Škrabanová
M. Šotolová
H. Troníčková
C. Zeyerová
L. Geussová
I. Kučerová
J. Seyfertová
J. Scheybová
S. Študentová
Pavla Břínková
H. Francová
E. Kamesleimerová
K. Kučerová
H. Sládková
M. Smolová
I. Svobodová
Zuzana Rumlová
Olga Bušková
E. Otavová
A. Řezníčková
J. Šmídová
J. Tomšů
M. Bohatová
Jiřina Jandová
Karel Hovorka
J. Balík
J. Lebeda
M. Mach
Karel Fiala
Miloslav Šindler
Jaroslav Toms
Václav Vodák
J. Krupička
J. Zeman
František Häusler
Radomír Hubáček
Helena Kotoučová
Vl. Grygar
K. Geipel
Vratislav Hurych
J. Englická
Jiří Kaftan
Theodor Kunst
V. Kebrt
František Poláček
M. Janoušková
A. Mařáková
Z. Povolná
Věra Koželuhová
V. Malečová
E. Tichá
Felix Černý
Karel Přinesdomů
J. Němec
E. Šumberová
Z. Šumberová
Zdeněk Šmidrkal
Josef Kemr
Fenek (voice)
Jiří Němeček
Nazi in Smoking Suit
Vladimír Čech
Crematory Manager (voice)
The Cremator Reviews
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
Kopfrkingl himself, played by Rudolf Hrusinky, with the face of a gently demonic Charles Laughton and the manner of a malevolent Herbert Marshall, is a creation of considerable interest.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
While retrospect allows one to appreciate The Cremator's comically monstrous undertones, it's dismaying sense of dread has only become more potent over time.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
The Cremator is essential viewing if you're a lover of morbid black comedy, the kind of cinema that lies on the delicate border between horror and social satire.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Herz practiced a surrealism that is bare of whimsy and armed with aggression; one image splinters into the next, and, in the opening scene, full of caged beasts, you feel the prowling presence of Kafka.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
While it's a bit programmatic for my taste, this 1968 black comedy in black and white is undeniably creepy -- once director Juraj Herz enters the fractured mind of his protagonist, he refuses to budge.
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