The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope
Directed by Jan Švankmajer · Starring Jan Zácek · 1983
Seen entirely through the eyes of a prisoner of the Inquisition, a captive faces the descending blade and the pit, and then the cruelest torment of all: hope.
Surrealist master Švankmajer turns Poe into a claustrophobic first-person nightmare that still feels radical.
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