The Limping Devil
The Limping Devil
Juraj Herz and Václav Neckář star in The Limping Devil (1968),directed by Juraj Herz. On Fmovies it carries a 4.8/10 rating from 5 votes. The title is a Comedy and Fantasy film from Czechoslovakia running 1h 22m. A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz),the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová),the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
- Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Director: Juraj Herz
- Cast: Juraj Herz, Václav Neckář, Jana Šulcová, Oľga Šalagová, František Zvarík, Václav Štekl, Yvonne Přenosilová, Robert Morávek, Jaroslav Neduha, Josef Bartoš, Karel Linc, Jiří Lír
