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Down to the Cellar

Jan Švankmajer · Czechoslovakia · Experimental / Horror / Fantasy · 17 min · 10K views

Directed by Jan Švankmajer · Starring Monika Belo-Cabanová, Olga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko · 1983

A little girl sent down to the cellar for potatoes enters a nightmarish world of living objects and unsettling adults.

Švankmajer's surreal classic distils childhood dread into an unforgettable descent.

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