Katapulta

In comparison to Private Storm, Catapult comes out clearly better. Jiří Bartoška is great, as well as all his mistresses played by our top actresses. Only the end simply had to be adjusted according to the party's wishes, how could anyone possibly commit suicide in a socialist paradise?! Unacceptable! (03.07.2008)

The beginning of the 1980s was great. The scripts that had been condemned by normalization were released and the audience finally saw the slightly perverse Katapult and The Downfall of the Secluded Berhof. The theme sketched by Páral is fine and I am very glad that its final form was given to it by Jireš in a time that is very similar to today, so it is very timeless. A classic story of a philanderer who has enough of everything, a nice and pretty wife, a nice child, a nice apartment and a suitable job... but the routine ends up getting to him. He is so worried about himself that he sees the solution only in starting a new double life, the Don Juan brand. Surprisingly, this decision can be made very easily with the help of a dating ad. And then it flows like clockwork, our Don Juan keeps his wife in reserve and regularly changes collections of women in various stages of infatuation. One is young, another is mature, one is earthy, another is intellectual, one is replacing her late husband, and still another wants to get married for the first time. It is a colorful, alarming, very real world that should not be forgotten or a blind eye turned toward it. (11.11.2016)