In Karel Kachyna's remarkable The Ear, a Communist Party official and his wife find their home under surveillance and riddled with listening devices planted by his own bureau, and a harrowing night of dread and paranoia ensues One of the most courageous and innovative films of its time, fearlessly referring to many taboo subjects of the Stalinist era, The Ear was banned by the Czech authorities, and remained unseen for twenty years. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship
Digitally remastered with full audio restoration The Ear is a story about paranoia and how it can turn the closest of people against each other. Banned by the Czech authorities in 1970 the film didn't resurface until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The director Karel Kachyna was posthumously nominated for the Cannes Golden Palm Award upon the film's revival.
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