WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

morrison-dylan-fan Whilst searching round for Czech Sci-Fi films to view I was surprised to find one which instead of space or time travel was a take on the Post-Apocalypse genre,which led to me getting ready to enter the Hotel Ozone.The plot:20 years after a nuclear war wipes most of humanity out,a group of women, (all born after the bombing)are led by the "old women",whose military background helps the women to survive in the wilderness.Fearing that all the men are dying,the women go in search of males so that the human race can continue.During their search the women stumble upon the broken down Hotel Ozone,which is being run by an old man.Inviting them in,the old man soon discovers an apocalyptic generation gap.View on the film:Landing when the "optimism" of the Soviet's winning the "Space Race" had crumbled,the screenplay by Pavel Jurácek, (who also directed the superb Case for a Rookie Hangman,and sadly died at just 53) takes a merciless allegorical approach to the Sci-Fi wasteland.Keeping just two people born before the apocalypse alive, Jurácek tears the Soviet belief over the destruction of history for a bright future into ruins and dried blood.Along with displaying the Soviet destruction of the past, Jurácek also keeps the post-apocalypse canvas burning hot,as the snipped,rustic dialogue cast the group in a Film Noir shadow,where all signs of humanity have rot away.Making his feature film debut,director Jan Schmidt brilliantly links the earthiness of the Czech New Wave (CNW),with the ultra-stylised shine of Film Noir.Basking in an unrelenting sun, Schmidt and cinematographer Jirí Macák smash the world into mud,sweat and blood,as Schmidt stilted camera grabs the soulless grime that the women are caked in with a CNW unflinching stare.Stepping away from the burnt up outdoor locations, Schmidt seeps a brittle Film Noir atmosphere into the hotel,where the delicate lights reveals the beauties that the women could have been,and also uncovers the dead to the world souls that they have become,in the Hotel Ozone.

marshalskrieg This 1966 Czech film is a gritty post apocalyptic cautionary tale. A senior lady guides a troupe of young women through a desolate and presumably radioactive future wasteland- a quest to find other people.The women are very easy on the eye, in a natural, 'cowgirl' or farmers daughter kind of way. They also harbor a darkness that unfolds as the film progresses. The black and white cinematography perfectly conveys the horror and sensibility of a land ravaged years ago by nuclear war.This film is direct, without symbolism. The women eventually meet up with an old man who......The film offers clues about humanities future emotional tone, our end maybe, in a world bereft of the humanizing elements of stability and civilization.This is a must see film for any serious aficionado of science fiction, or any other genre, for that matter.Animal lovers beware: scenes of actual animal cruelty appear in this film. Remember, this was made in 1966 in a non western nation, so standards were different.

effigiebronze This movie is a stunner, to be sure, and easily decades ahead of its time; the atmosphere of degradation and decay, and just plain desolation, is far beyond anything accomplished in any other film, and I include the immortal MAD MAX 2.However, I have to, HAVE TO, ask the question of whether this film works, as do most Central/Eastern European films, on more than one level, and whether there is inner commentary contained in the film.Watching it, I was struck by the subtext of how the old world has ended, and a new world begun, with new and young people with no knowledge of what went before; this is a basic tenet of radical Communism. The old people, clutching to the remnants of their soft and settled existence, dreaming of a life gone and never to exist again... as the Old One dies, so does the last vestige of any form of culture, or art, of even civilized behavior, and all that is left is a gramophone record of ROLL OUT THE BARREL being carried on horseback by heavily armed and murderous beasts; who themselves lack the capacity to reproduce.I watched this film as a veiled indictment of the Eastern Bloc Communist belief that required history to be eradicated, for a new world to emerge after that holocaust, only to find the act of destruction (with an intent to rebuild) resulted in nothing less than the death of civilization and the creation of savages with no higher conscience. I admit to an influence, though, in that I was in the Balkans during the 'wars' of the 1990s; and one of the most striking and heartbreaking things was many people's belief that Socialism had created a New Man, with no history; and how unfathomably shocked they were to have these fine creations of humanity revealed as violent animals bent on nothing more than mindless destruction.

littlesiddie 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.