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The End of August at the Hotel Ozone

A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.

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Release : 1967
Rating : 6.7
Studio : Československý armádní film, 
Crew : Production Design,  Set Decoration, 
Cast : Ondrej Jariabek Vladimír Hlavatý Olga Scheinpflugová
Genre : Science Fiction

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Reviews

Greenes
2018/08/30

Please don't spend money on this.

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Curapedi
2018/08/30

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

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Chirphymium
2018/08/30

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Aneesa Wardle
2018/08/30

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Kevin Schwoer
2008/09/18

Depicting a dark and nomadic future, The End of August at the Hotel Ozone is a film that was ahead of its time. Much of Hollywood and television have generated many post apocalyptic material in the last twenty years. Whether it has to do with nuclear war becoming more and more realistic or Nostradamus' predictions that the world will end in 2012, or somewhere in between, we will never know. But the entertainment business has cashed in on the very real and terrifying idea, or perhaps actuality.The film directed by Jan Schmidt and made in 1966, is set in an unknown year. To the characters it doesn't matter what year it is and realistically speaking it wouldn't matter anyway. The world has ended through nuclear holocaust and a strong opening conveys this narrative with countdowns spoken in every language, counting down the end of the world, which is fantastic.Following eight young women born after the end, the story involves an older woman who is leading them to find civilization, if any. Everyone else has died including all the males leaving the women to fend for themselves. Much of the film depicts their lives out in the country and it makes for needless and boring stuff, though it has a point. At the end of the world these women have nothing and the director captures a very authentic realism. These eight young women are held at bay by the will of the older woman who is the last inkling of the old, civilized world. Yet the realism goes beyond the boring stuff. The actresses in this film are seen catching runaway horses and mounting them bareback while running and diving doing all their own stunts. In this sense the film sometimes seems as if it is a documentary instead.Halfway through the film they meet up with an old man, a partner for the old woman. The young women don't know what he is, never having seen a man before. The relationship between the two older people is truly heartbreaking. The young women look like savages in front of them and there is a scene where everyone is eating which depicts just that. The old woman on one end and the old man on the other while all the young women in between. In scenes like this the director's voice can be heard loud and clear. This film isn't just about the end of the world; it is a commentary on the human condition which is timeless. The younger generation comes up and destroys what the older generation worked for. Without guidance the children become savages, and generations of the vicious circle will eventually lead us back to the Stone Age, nomadic and primitive. The film ends with the two older people dead and the "children" alone, doing and taking what they please. Jan Schmidt's outlook on life is grim though maybe not entirely untrue.

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JSBOND008
2008/02/28

this apocalyptic themed movie should be appreciated. my favorite element of the film is how it shows how efficient humans become at something they have to do,especially if it is the first and foremost human feeling, the will to survive. Seven women (one of them my absolute dream girl) are all that's left on a deserted world. the movie also includes severe animal cruelty (dog, cow, fish, man) but hey anything for the sake of cinema and don't forget, it was filmed in 1966. Another excellent element to the film was the contrast in emotion from the older people depicted in the movie, Mrs. Hurtzburger and the old man vs. the women who were too young when the plague occurred so never gained a sense of culture (no countries, no TV, no music etc) and are very similar to animals (as they are called before killing the only remaining man on the planet for his only worthwhile material possession. Professor Wojcik: I write a review on every movie you show and more here:http://www.flixster.com/user/jsbond008

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Joe Stemme
2004/08/22

I remember seeing a small handbill in a college basement around 1980. One of the films to be screened was THE END OF AUGUST AT THE HOTEL OZONE. The title intrigued, but, being the typical "too busy College Student" I did not attend the showing. So, for about a quarter century the title just lingered in my memory. Unreachable. I've NEVER heard of it screening anywhere, playing on TV or available on video or DVD (even in bootleg form). The title itself was so tantalizing, promising perhaps something apocalyptic (END OF "THE WORLD" not "AUGUST" perhaps?) or mysterious (a Hotel in the Ozone Layer?). And, of course, its sheer scarcity could only enhance the mystery, the suspense. Then, there it was in the American Cinemateque schedule. Oh, NO, I wasn't going to miss it this time! I had been up for work since 4 AM (!) and had worked a full 12 hour day. But, I was NOT to be denied! While the film does not quite live up to its evocative title (there was no reasonable way it could), it's still a find Eastern European contribution to the Post-Nuke, End-Of-The-World and Lord of the Flies sub-genre(s). After an oblique reference to the Nuclear calamity that man inflicted upon itself some 15 years earlier, the film proper begins slowly as we come to see a band of young, presumably fertile women, led by a wise old sage. I emphasize the word slowly, because the pace is off-putting at first. Events do happen and we get a picture of the women's pathetic and lonely existence. I particularly admired the fact that they are not scrubbed clean, shaved, manicured and primped and prettified as they doubtless would have been in an American production - Remember all those "lost women" films where the tribal women look like beauty contestants (indeed a couple of the actresses are very attractive, just unkempt)?! But, the glacial pacing is almost enough to drive most viewer's patience beyond the brink. Once the group stumbles upon an old man and his "Hotel Ozone", the film comes into its own. Where the viewer is naturally inclined to sympathize with the women (if they had been men would we be so accepting?) despite some cruel, savage and disturbing activities (particularly towards animals), slowly we come to see a fuller and less positive view towards them. This reversal is doubtless intentional and packs a strong visceral punch. The final images of this band of lost ladies wandering a barren landscape is both heart-breaking and depressingly believable. It's to the film's credit that we are not given a false or tidy ending: Befitting a title as gloriously ambiguous as THE END OF AUGUST AT THE HOTEL OZONE.

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littlesiddie
2004/05/22

There isn't much of a story line in this film. But the characters and atmosphere are very effective.There is one somewhat disturbing, but brief, sequence where a nice looking German shepherd dog is killed. I think they just simulated it's death by catching one of it's legs in a humane trap, but the dog's piteous yelps are still very heart rending.The rest of the movie is very good, especially towards the end when the group of women are staying at the nearly abandoned hotel.In a way, this movie was very well structured, even though there isn't much of story. It starts out slow and sets a scene, and then the plot thickens fairly smoothly and progressively towards the end. And it has a really tremendous ending, but I don't want to reveal it.And, of course, the best thing about this movie are the feral young Amazonian women.I'd love to have a copy of this film. It's a pity that it's out of print.

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