The Ear

Our screening on Tuesday 6 October will be introduced Daniela Richterová, Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

A high-ranking Communist official and his wife begin to suspect that their home has been put under surveillance by the Party. Over one night, the growing tension exposes a bitter fault-line in their relationship, feeding an atmosphere of paranoia and dread.

Daring to address the taboos of the Stalinist era, The Ear was banned soon after completion and remained unseen until the fall of Communism twenty years later. Combining a blackly-comic portrait of a disintegrating marriage with a searing critique of totalitarianism, this landmark film is an extraordinary indictment of life under an oppressive system and remains starkly relevant today.

Cast:
Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jiřina Bohdalová

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Part of Czechoslovak New Wave Karel Kachyňa, Czechoslovakia, 1970, 95m.