The lone directorial effort of Ester Krumbachová, better known as a scriptwriter (DAISIES, VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS) and costume designer, is a barbed, blissfully bizarre feminist satire released amidst the flowering of political and artistic liberation that was the “Prague Spring,” concerned with a fortysomething woman and her relationship with a childhood friend—surname “Devil”—who has aged into a crass glutton, his presence tolerated only because he represents her last hope for marriage.
Co-written with enfant terrible Jan Němec, MURDERING THE DEVIL is a visually dynamic depiction of the grudge match battle of the sexes, and a pantheon work of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
