The Cassandra Cat
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Winner of the Special Jury Prize and Technical Grand Prize, 1963 Cannes Film Festival
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A magician and some travelling showmen appear in a peaceful and remote village accompanied by the beautiful Diana and a cat wearing glasses. The feline possesses the uncanny ability to reveal the true nature of people who look at him, and this is about to turn the village upside down. One of the gems of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
Vojtěch Jasný
Vojtěch Jasný was a Czech director, screenwriter, and professor who has written and directed over 50 films. Jasný made feature and documentary films in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, USA & Canada, and was a notable figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best remembered for The Cassandra Cat (1963) and All My Compatriots (1968), both of which won prizes at Cannes Film Festival. In addition to his film career he taught directing at film schools in Salzburg, Vienna, Münich and New York.
