Summer Cinema — The Cremator

CZ + ENG subtitles

Czech Karel Kopfrk­ingl enjoys his job at a cre­ma­to­ri­um in the late 1930s. He likes read­ing the Tibetan book of the dead, and espous­es the view that cre­ma­tion relieves earth­ly suf­fer­ing. At a recep­tion, he meets Reineke, with whom he fought for Aus­tria in the first World War. Reineke con­vinces Kopfrk­ingl to empha­size his sup­pos­ed­ly Ger­man her­itage, includ­ing send­ing his timid son to the Ger­man school. Reineke then sug­gests that Kopfrk­ingl’s half-Jew­ish wife is hold­ing back his advance­ment in his job.