Karol Sidon: The Double Law

Karol Sidon and his famous radio apocrypha. In 1968, Double Law was awarded first prize in a national art competition celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the republic. The Gospels and the New Testament texts were the inspiration for playwright Karol Sidon's radio play The Double Testament. As in his essays, Sidon takes a polemical approach to the life of Jesus Christ and adopts bold original positions. Deleted during normalisation, in r. 1991 reconstructed from amateur recordings. Persons and cast: Judas of Iscariot (Rudolf Hrušínský), Caiaphas, high priest (Josef Patočka), Jesus of Nazareth (Radoslav Brzobohatý), Sister of Jesus (Jana Stepánková), Judas' wife (Jana Andresíková) and voice (Zdeněk Ornest). Directed by Jiří Horčička.