Summary: "The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mocumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. The novel takes place in Otranto in southern Italy. In Jan Svankmajer's mocumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr Vozáb has set to prove that the supernatural ghost love story takes place not in Italy but in Otranto Castle near Nachod in Czechoslovakia. (imdb)

AKA: Castle of Otranto

Genres: Animation, Short

Country: Czechoslovakia

Directed By: Jan Svankmajer

Written By: Jan Svankmajer, Horace Walpole

Starring: Milos Frýba, Jaroslav Vozáb

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