Ilya Racek Movies

Racial prejudice, in this case against gypsies (Romanies), is the focus of this low-budget but well-wrought story of a murder and unfounded suspicions. When the older son of a local, important party member is found with his throat slashed in the Romany quarter of town, the distraught and grieving father is ready to blame the gypsies for his death. Since one of the senior police officers is from that community himself, he acts as a counterfoil for the rush to judgment, a judgement not shared by the rest of the policemen who also want a thorough and unbiased investigation, no matter what the father's standing may be. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

The Death of Tarzan is a Czechoslovakian black comedy which casts a jaundiced eye on the mythos of Edgar Rice Burrough's "Lord of the Apes." Orphaned in the wilds of Africa, a Czech baron (Rudolf Hrusinsky) grows up to be Tarzan. He is discovered by relatives and returned to Civilization -- if one can called the Nazi-dominated Europe of 1939 civilized. Unable to adapt to his new environment, the disgruntled Tarzan returns to the jungle, just in time for the Nazi invasion of Africa. Literally a man without a country, Tarzan sells his services to a travelling carnival as a freak attraction. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi