Insect
MovieTitle | Hmyz |
User score | 5.8 |
Release date | Feb 19, 2018 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama, Animation |
Director | Jan Švankmajer |
Production country | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
Production companies | ATHANOR, PubRes, Česká televize |
Budget | $400,000 |
Run time | 98 min. |
The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect Play, a famous satirical work from 1922 by the brothers Karel and Josef Čapek which features insects with decidedly human traits: greed, egocentrism, jealousy.