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.

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.

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