Jan 01, 1977
17 min
Full-HD

Castle of Otranto (1977)

"The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mockumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. The novel takes place in Otranto in southern Italy. In Jan Svankmajer's mocumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr Vozáb has set to prove that the supernatural ghost love story takes place not in Italy but in Otranto Castle near Nachod in Czechoslovakia.

Category

Animation

Country

Czechoslovakia

Companies

Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky

Miloš Frýba

Reporter

Jaroslav Vozáb

Dr. Vozáb

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