Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports and stories: he participated in the discovery of the real murderer of a rich innkeeper, attended the wedding of a beggar's son with the daughter of a complacent rich man, and witnessed the mysterious murder of a money-changer's uncle.
Acting
Josef Laufer's Kisch — all nervous energy and fedora-tipping swagger.
Production
Pre-WWI Prague recreated with loving, dusty detail.
Writing
Kisch's real reportage adapted with biting, period-perfect wit.
Director
Martin Hollý
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Egon Erwin Kisch was a real journalist known as 'The Raging Reporter' — his actual 1920s reportage collections were banned by the Nazis.
The film captures the specific melancholy of 1913 Prague — empires rotting, violence bubbling, nobody yet knowing the war to come.
XC
