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Conspirators of Pleasure (Czech: Spiklenci slasti) is a 1996 black comedy film by Jan Švankmajer. His third feature film after Alice and Faust, it was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.
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Conspirators of Pleasure. Six Prague residents pursue bizarre rituals. Mr. Peony (Petr Meissel) builds a chicken costume to wear while enacting homicidal fantasies toward neighbor Mrs....
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- Petr Meissel
- Jan Svankmajer
- Comedy, Drama
Jun 25, 2014 · Jan Švankmajer’s third feature film, Spiklenci slasti ( Conspirators of Pleasure, 1996), a dialogue-free black comedy aspiring to create a synaesthetic experience for its audience, concerns the blithely interconnected quests of six Prague denizens for onanistic bliss in an elaborate autoerotic roundelay.
- Cerise Howard
A life-action feature, black comedy about a group of loosely connected, "ordinary" people who feverishly engage in obsessive rituals: Mr Peony fashions a papier-mache rooster's head and bat wings made of umbrellas; his landlady inflicts punishment on a life-size rag doll's effigy of him; the newspap. Cast & Crew. Read More. Jan Svankmajer. Director
- Jan Svankmajer
- Petr Meissel
Oct 14, 1996 · The Conspirators of Pleasure Czech-Swiss-British Production: An Athanor (Czech Republic)/Delfilm (Geneva)/Koninck Intl. (London) production. (International sales: Celluloid Dreams, Paris ...
Conspirators of Pleasure is unlike what many would expect from a Svankmajer film being devoid (or lessened) of his usual aesthetic (i.e. stop motion animation, intricate set designs, puppetry, camera tricks and editing). However it very much contains the spirit and aura of Svankmajer leaving it indelibly stamped with his signature.
