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Its main character is a Czech family man who is a head waiter and also moonlights as a cremator in 1938. Later he drops his job in a restaurant and dedicates all his time to the crematorium. His life is quite regular however political situation takes a dangerous turn as Czechoslovakia is in danger to be occupied by the Nazi Germany. Gradually the soul of Karl gives in to evil. He eventually commits things one would never believe he was capable of.
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Its main character is a Czech family man who is a head waiter and also moonlights as a cremator in 1938. Later he drops his job in a restaurant and dedicates all his time to the crematorium. His life is quite regular regular; however the political situation takes a dangerous turn as Czechoslovakia is in danger to be occupied by the Nazi Germany. Gradually the soul of Karl gives in to evil. He eventually commits things one would never believe he was capable of.
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* AllAreEqualInDeath: Invoked by dr. Bettleheim when Karel brings up this question asking whetherv the ashes of the people of various ethnicities are different.
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* AllAreEqualInDeath: Invoked by dr. Dr. Bettleheim when Karel brings up this question asking whetherv whether the ashes of the people of various ethnicities are different.
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* TheHypocrite: Karel who pretends to a doctor who performs his blood analysis that he is a faithful husband but in fact regularly cheats on his wife with a hooker.
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* AxCrazy: Karel begins to slowly lose his marbles over the course of the film, and it eventually comes to a head when he murders his son and tries to do the same with his daughter when his obsession with death finally reaches critical mass.
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The Cremator (original title Spalovač mrtvol) is a 1969 Czechoslovak film by a Slovak director Juraj Herz made from a Czech novel of the same name.
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* AllAreEqualInDeath: Invoked by dr. Bettleheim when Karl brings up this question asking whetherv the ashes of the people of various ethnicities are different.
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* AllAreEqualInDeath: Invoked by dr. Bettleheim when Karl Karel brings up this question asking whetherv the ashes of the people of various ethnicities are different.
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** Also for Dvorak, the Jewish crematorium worker (played by the famous director Jiří Menzel), whose surname is also identical to that of a Music/AntoninDvorak. Both times it is lampshaded by Karl.
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** Also for Dvorak, the Jewish crematorium worker (played by the famous director Jiří Menzel), whose surname is also identical to that of a Music/AntoninDvorak. Both times it is lampshaded by Karl.Karel.
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* WickedCultured: Karel who knows Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss and Antonin Dvorak and enjoys their music.
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* WickedCultured: Karel who knows Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss and Antonin Dvorak Antonín Dvořàk and enjoys their music.
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* ExpoSpeak: Provided by Karel in the beginning.
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* BlackComedy: Gallows humour galore. Karel works in a crematorium and it is 1938-39, the time where Czechosloval independence became greatly endangered.
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* CharacterTics: Played for very BlackComedy. Karel casually first combs other people's hair with his comb then immediately combs his own hair with the same comb. As he works in the crematorium it is easy to guess whose hair he frequently combs before applying the comb to his own.
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* ComedicSociopathy: Karel talks loudly about cremation in the restaurant where he works as a head water.
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* ComedicSociopathy: Karel talks loudly about cremation in the restaurant where he works as a head water.water so that the eating customers can hear him.
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* OpinionFlipflop: Karel usually repeats thoughts of the latest people with whom he for the moment has spoken.
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Its main character is a Сzech family man who is a head waiter and also moonlights as a cremator in 1938. His life is quite regular however political situation takes a dangerous turn as Czechoslovakia is in danger to be occupied by the Nazi Germany. Gradually the soul of Karl gives in to evil. He eventually commits things one would never believe he was capable of.
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Its main character is a Сzech Czech family man who is a head waiter and also moonlights as a cremator in 1938. Later he drops his job in a restaurant and dedicates all his time to the crematorium. His life is quite regular however political situation takes a dangerous turn as Czechoslovakia is in danger to be occupied by the Nazi Germany. Gradually the soul of Karl gives in to evil. He eventually commits things one would never believe he was capable of.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Happy family]]
The Cremator (original title Spalovač mrtvol) is a 1969 Czechoslovak film by a Slovak director Juraj Herz made from a Czech novel of the same name.
Its main character is a Сzech family man who is a head waiter and also moonlights as a cremator in 1938. His life is quite regular however political situation takes a dangerous turn as Czechoslovakia is in danger to be occupied by the Nazi Germany. Gradually the soul of Karl gives in to evil. He eventually commits things one would never believe he was capable of.
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!! Tropes
* AllAreEqualInDeath: Invoked by dr. Bettleheim when Karl brings up this question asking whetherv the ashes of the people of various ethnicities are different.
* AlliterativeName: Karel Kopfrkingl.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The party of the Nazi functionaries is quite graphic by the standards of the 60's.
* BumblingDad: Karel is frequently this especially in the first half of the film.
* CerebusSyndrome: The situation in Czechoslovakia in 1938-39 is ever more gloomy. The tone of the film shifts correspondingly.
* ChekhovsGun: The iron bar once dropped by Dvorak. He invokes the trope saying not to remove the bar as it may be of service in the future.
* TheCorrupter: Reinke for Karel.
* TheCorruptible: Karel
* ExactWords: Karl is ostensibly fond of his wife and says that he'd like to hang her on the Christmas tree as an angel. One can figure out the rest.
* FourthWallObserver: Karel quite frequently looks directly into the camera.
* TheHypocrite: Karel who pretends to a doctor who performs his blood analysis that he is a faithful husband but in fact regularly cheats on his wife with a hooker.
* MeaningfulName:
** For Strauss, the Jewish salesman who shares his surname with the several Austrian composers.
** For Dvorak too, the Jewish worker crematorium, whose surname is also identical to that of a Music/AntoninDvorak. Both times it is lampshaded by Karl.
* MotorMouth: Karel speaks incessantly especially in the beginning. He gives out a lot of information making for ExpoSpeak.
* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring:]]
** [[spoiler: Karel kills his son, Mili, that an iron bar.]]
** [[spoiler: Later he tries to kill his daughter but she escapes.]]
* PetTheDog//KickTheDog: Zigzagged. Karel is at times kind to his cat and pours her milk. At times he is fairly (though not excessively) rud to her.
* RunningGag:
** A couple attend a guignol performance with wax figures and the wife is always frightened when a new wax villain is revealed for JumpScare. In the end the enraged husband leaves the theatre. Later the same couple is seen at the box match. The wife is constantly upset that two boxers hit each other. She is also afraid that they'll hit referee. In the end the wife, indignant that the people fight here, goes away with the husband. Later still Karel meets them at the cemetry and the wife once more is angry that the husband brought her to the place where there are deads. In the very end Karel meets the husband on the cemetry in the same place without his wife whom he somehow lost.
* ShoutOut: The painting in the cabinet of the high-ranking Nazi party functionary has Hell panel from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronimus Bosch.
* TheStoic: Lakmé reacts stoically to anything that Karel pronounces.
* VillainProtagonist: Karel.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Carel and Mili.
* WickedCultured: Karel who knows Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss and Antonin Dvorak and enjoys their music.
[[caption-width-right:350:Happy family]]
The Cremator (original title Spalovač mrtvol) is a 1969 Czechoslovak film by a Slovak director Juraj Herz made from a Czech novel of the same name.
Its main character is a Сzech family man who is a head waiter and also moonlights as a cremator in 1938. His life is quite regular however political situation takes a dangerous turn as Czechoslovakia is in danger to be occupied by the Nazi Germany. Gradually the soul of Karl gives in to evil. He eventually commits things one would never believe he was capable of.
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!! Tropes
* AllAreEqualInDeath: Invoked by dr. Bettleheim when Karl brings up this question asking whetherv the ashes of the people of various ethnicities are different.
* AlliterativeName: Karel Kopfrkingl.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The party of the Nazi functionaries is quite graphic by the standards of the 60's.
* BumblingDad: Karel is frequently this especially in the first half of the film.
* CerebusSyndrome: The situation in Czechoslovakia in 1938-39 is ever more gloomy. The tone of the film shifts correspondingly.
* ChekhovsGun: The iron bar once dropped by Dvorak. He invokes the trope saying not to remove the bar as it may be of service in the future.
* TheCorrupter: Reinke for Karel.
* TheCorruptible: Karel
* ExactWords: Karl is ostensibly fond of his wife and says that he'd like to hang her on the Christmas tree as an angel. One can figure out the rest.
* FourthWallObserver: Karel quite frequently looks directly into the camera.
* TheHypocrite: Karel who pretends to a doctor who performs his blood analysis that he is a faithful husband but in fact regularly cheats on his wife with a hooker.
* MeaningfulName:
** For Strauss, the Jewish salesman who shares his surname with the several Austrian composers.
** For Dvorak too, the Jewish worker crematorium, whose surname is also identical to that of a Music/AntoninDvorak. Both times it is lampshaded by Karl.
* MotorMouth: Karel speaks incessantly especially in the beginning. He gives out a lot of information making for ExpoSpeak.
* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring:]]
** [[spoiler: Karel kills his son, Mili, that an iron bar.]]
** [[spoiler: Later he tries to kill his daughter but she escapes.]]
* PetTheDog//KickTheDog: Zigzagged. Karel is at times kind to his cat and pours her milk. At times he is fairly (though not excessively) rud to her.
* RunningGag:
** A couple attend a guignol performance with wax figures and the wife is always frightened when a new wax villain is revealed for JumpScare. In the end the enraged husband leaves the theatre. Later the same couple is seen at the box match. The wife is constantly upset that two boxers hit each other. She is also afraid that they'll hit referee. In the end the wife, indignant that the people fight here, goes away with the husband. Later still Karel meets them at the cemetry and the wife once more is angry that the husband brought her to the place where there are deads. In the very end Karel meets the husband on the cemetry in the same place without his wife whom he somehow lost.
* ShoutOut: The painting in the cabinet of the high-ranking Nazi party functionary has Hell panel from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronimus Bosch.
* TheStoic: Lakmé reacts stoically to anything that Karel pronounces.
* VillainProtagonist: Karel.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Carel and Mili.
* WickedCultured: Karel who knows Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss and Antonin Dvorak and enjoys their music.
