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THE CASE OF THE DEAD DEADMAN

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By Miloslav SMIDMAJER

Crime - Completed 2020

A a group of absurd detectives investigate a string of equally absurd crimes, all the while pissing off their ornery boss. Using a dark and ironic lens that Czech cinema is famous for, The Case of the Dead Deadman cleverly pokes fun at all of your favorite crime movie troupes.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Crime, Comedy
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- Languages
- CZECH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Miloslav SMIDMAJER
- Writer(s)
- Lumír HOLČÁK, David ZIEGELBAUER
- Cast
- David NOVOTNY, Hana VAGNEROVÁ, Lukáš PŘÍKAZKÝ, Martin PECHLÁT, Miroslav TÁBORSKÝ, Tereza SRBOVA, Eva HOLUBOVÁ, Martin MYSICKA, Anna POLIVKOVA, Klara ISSOVA, Milan STEINDLER, Lenka KROBOTOVA, Pavla BERETOVÁ, Henrieta HORNÁČKOVÁ, Petra JUNGMANOVÁ, Pavel RÍMSKÝ
- Producer(s)
- Miloslav ŠMÍDMAJER (Bio Illusion s.r.o.)
- Synopsis
- The by-the-books detective Drátek has just been selected as the new head of criminal investigations and everyone is ecstatic! That is, everyone but the aptly named Wolf who has Drátek’s breaks cut. The plan goes awry when both men end up in the tampered car and critical in the hospital. However, being covered in so many bandages sure makes it difficult to remember who is who. . . Three years after these events we meet an absurd investigative team led by Major Proctor, an accomplished detective who is unable to pick up on subtlety. His number two woman is the newly hired Sculley. . .or was her name Salley? No one can seem to remember. They follow an increasingly kooky trail of evidence including human shaped holes in the pavement, erotic voice actors, hypnotized hypnotists, hick love notes,and a conviniently placed mirror revealing EGNEVER backwards is REVENGE. Drátek never seems pleased with their shoddy police work and constantly threatens to put an end to their investigation, but thanks to some delicious sweet rolls the team is lead to a mountainous pile of ransom tapes overlooked in the first victims apartment.
  The identity of the criminal mastermind is revealed to be none other than the head of criminal investigations, Drátek! Or rather Drátek’s body with the brain of Wolf (thanks to a slight mix up at the hospital). The team chases down the guilty party in a comical action-adjacent sequence. They capture Wolf and his accomplice, then celebrate in their best penguin suits. However, like all good movie detectives, the work is never over for Major Proctor, and almost as soon as the case is wrapped up, he’s already ignoring his family and on to the next case.