Alice

Name: Alice
Genre: Animation
Released: 2026-07-25
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Cast: Kristýna Kohoutová

<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">Czech surrealist <b>Jan Švankmajer </b>adapts Lewis Carroll's classic, combining a live-action Alice (<b>Kristýna Kohoutová</b>) with creepy stop motion animated characters. </div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">While around forty film versions exist, as well as numerous TV adaptations, the version that Czech stop motion master Jan Švankmajer fashioned in 1988 stands alone in its dark and original take on Carroll’s light-hearted tale.</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">In Alice, Kohoutová plays the role close to Carroll’s original, mischievous Alice from the novel. Yet, in the context of 1988 socialist Czechoslovakia, rebellious Alice is not just a historical image of resistance against communist conformism but also represents a craving for freedom from socialist stricture.</div><div style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">Screening as part of our No Strings on Me season. </div><div style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">Czech with English subtitles. </div>AnimationPT1H26MPG2026-07-25

Kristýna Kohoutová

Jan Švankmajer

Peter-Christian Fueter

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Showtimes

July 25, 8:40 pm