Charlatan [videorecording] / director, Agnieszka Holland.
Jan Mikolasek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for 'urinary diagnosis'. But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell, his assistant, Frantisek. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan's dichotomies are put to a final test, with the fate of his life's only love in the balance. A personal tale as replete with twists as the century itself, and a reflection on the price one pays for single-mindedly following one's calling.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (118 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Strand Releasing, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj. |
Target Audience Note: | 14A. |
System Details Note: | DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | For private home use only. |
Language Note: | Audio track in Czech, German, with optional subtitles in English. |
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Subject: | Mikolasek, Jan > Fiction. Alternative medicine > Czechoslovakia > Fiction. Healers > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Biographical films. Feature films. Fiction films. Foreign films. Historical films. Motion pictures, Czech. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
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Sechelt Public Library | DVD Foreign CHAR (Text) | 33260000547878 | DVD | Volume hold | Available | - |