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The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun(1984)
Status: Released
Date: 1984-10-01
45%
10 Votes
Time: 1h 39m
Overview:
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
Languages: Czech.
Countries:
Czechoslovakia
ProductionCompanies:
Krátký film Praha
Movie: The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
Top 10 Billed Cast
Leoš Suchařípa
faun
Libuše Pospíšilová
šéfka
Jiří Hálek
Josef
Ivan Vyskočil
Tonda
František Kovářík
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Overview
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
Release Date
1984-10-01
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4.55
Rating:
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