Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

morrison-dylan-fan With this being one of the first Czech Sci-Fi movies that I heard about,I was disappointed to find that the only DVD on sale was an expensive out of print edition.Whilst looking on Youtube for other Czech films,I was delighted to somehow stumble upon this title,which led to me getting ready to scald myself with tea.The plot:Spending his life regretting that Hitler failed to win (!),former Nazi Klaus Abard decides to travel back in time with modern weapons that will help Hitler to win the war.Joined by some of the world's brightest,the time travelling machine driver Karel Bures goes for a bite with his twin brother Jan,and ends up choking to death on a bread roll.Aware of the mission that Karel has signed up for,Jan decides to secretly pretend to be his brother.Going back in time,Jan,Klaus and the other guests get an unexpected frosty reception from Hitler.View on the film:Shot when the Soviet Union was building major new infrastructure in the country,co-writer/(along with Josef Nesvadba & Milos Macourek) director Jindrich Polák and cinematographer Jan Kalis wrap the movie in an oddly optimistic atmosphere,thanks to breaking out of the studio and using the new buildings for a chic Sci-Fi sheen,and the frosty outdoors to cover the gang in the ice of Nazi Germany.Making most of the gang Nazi supporters,the screenplay by Polák/ Nesvadba and Macourek treads a fine line by taking a merciless dagger to the gang,who the writers hilariously paint as being a bunch of pompous, stubborn buffoons who even get on Hitler's nerves.Joined by a funky score from Karel Svoboda,the writers superbly loop the Sci-Fi loop with real precision,as an avoidance of the "traditional" time travel changes history route leads to the opening of alt realities and sharp twist and turns in the trust that the gang have for each other.Taking on two roles, Petr Kostka gives an excellent performance as Jan and Karel Bures,who Koska makes look wonderfully uncomfortable in their own skin,as the Bures scald themselves with tea.

andy-782 This is a film I saw just once on BBC2 on a Saturday night. In order not to watch Dallas I thought I'd watch the first half hour of the film and then turn over for Match of the Day. MotD never got a look in. The film had me laughing from the word go and made such an impression on my mind that I could still vividly remember scenes from it over a quarter of a century later. Today I received the DVD from a shop in the Czech Repbulic and am astounded at how well I remember the film. The plot centres around the plan by a group of former Nazis to travel back in time and give Hitler a hydrogen bomb and the attempt of the pilot to stop them. He is actually the twin brother of the pilot who should have been taking them but who had died choking on a bread roll. The immobilising spray and the washing up liquid were just as I remembered them. The American tourists were hammed up for all they were worth (it was made under communist rule after all). This is a very funny film and well worth the effort of ordering it from a website in a language I don't read.

Dennis Sisterson Like the user below, I saw this late one night on the BBC about 20 years ago - probably the only place it's been seen in the English-speaking world-! The plot as I remember it goes something like this: There are two twin brothers sharing an apartment. One is an untidy layabout, the other is a time machine pilot for a company that does tourist trips into the past. The smart brother is engaged to a nice girl whom the slob brother is also in love with. One of the time machines is hijacked by a group of Neo-Nazis who want to give Hitler the atom bomb (there is a scene of Hitler watching a movie of the fall of the Reich, brought to him by these people to prove who they are). Something goes wrong, of course, which somehow results, in the present day, of the smart brother, his girlfriend and all her family falling off a balcony to their deaths. The slob brother is left to sort things out and somehow manages to return to the present before he left and take the place of the dead brother, and marry the nice girl, who now isn't dead. So there are now two of him, one pretending to be the dead smart brother. If anyone else can add their fuzzy memories to this page please do - eventually we might be able to reconstruct the whole story; it seems unlikely we'll ever get to see the film again-! Maybe it only exists in another time continuum.

Fanboy-1 I remember watching this film screened on BBC2 late one evening in 1981 or was it 1980? I know the BBC still have rights to screen it, so if we're lucky we could press them into screening it on BBC4.It's a great film, with an even better take on the whole Sci-Fi 'time travel' genre. Back To The Future, Time Cop and all other time travel flicks pale into insignificance when compared to this offering... I'm sure Speilberg has seen this.I'm no Sci-Fi nut but when you consider this film was made in 1977 the screenplay must've been knocking around for a fair while before that, it's a great tribute to good writing. But what am I saying? I was all of 13 years-old when me and my brothers Robbie and Alan stayed up late to watch this on our old Indersit B/W telly. I only just remember it, but I know good movies and good tales when I see/hear them... and I've never forgotten this one.There's a Ray Bradbury story called 'A Sound Of Thunder' which looks at the consequences of time travel and messing and altering time lines... hey I could go on forever about this.I'd pay money to this film again - with or without subtitles, on video or DVD. But if anyone wants to help me badger the controller of BBC4 into screening it or releasing it on vid ( I'm not sure that they can) let's do it before some studio exec finds it and re-makes it and spoils the memory like always.Arrrggghhhh! I want to see this film again.