Experiment

About Experiment

Experiment is a 1943 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič.

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Experiment is a 1943 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič.

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Storyline

A doctor and a painter meet by chance in a mountain hut. Many years ago, they had both witnessed a young girl commit suicide. It is only now that they learn what led to the girl ending her life.

Cast

Zdeněk Štěpánek as MUDr. Svatopluk Slaba

Vlasta Matulová as Julka Zachová

Vítezslav Vejrazka as Slaba's Nephew Jindrich

Otomar Korbelář as Painter Karel Chodovský

Ella Nollová as Holovská

Anna Hlavácková-Vávrová as MUDr. Dunovská

Marie Blazková as Slaba's Housekeeper

Vera Hanslíková as Jindrich's lover

Marie Buresová as Singer

Olga Augustová as Singing-Mistress

Vladimír Repa as Guest at the Vernissage

František Filipovský as Guest at the Vernissage

Bolek Prchal as Servant in Slaba's sanatorium

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Notable quotes

“The history of these experiments is not a proud one. The Nazis specialised in them, with a view to eradicating homosexuality.”
— Julie Bindel, "If we wanted to be straight, we would be", The Guardian (14 December 2004)
“An experiment without a control is an act of faith.”
— Edward D. Garber, quoted in Charis Eng, "Serendipity, Faith, Science and Leadership", Cancer Biology & Therapy, Vol. 4, Issue 12 (December 2005), p. 1422
“great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.If we wanted to be straight, we would be (Tue 14 Dec 2004 02.55 GMT)”
— Christiaan Huygens, in a letter (1687) to Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all..”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882)
“My view is that the contribution of human cells is going to be minimal, maybe 3 percent, maybe 5 percent. But what if they contributed to 100 percent of the brain? What if the embryo that develops is mostly human? It’s something that we don’t expect, but no one has done this experiment, so we can’t rule it out.”
— Pablo Ross, developmental biologist at the University of California, Davis MIT Technology Review
“The scientific question is the logical hypothesis which from a known law further proceeds by analogy and induction, the answer gives the experiment, which is prescribed in the question itself.”
— Rudolf Virchow, the scientific method and the views in therapy. From: Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine. 2. ribbon. Berlin: Reimar, 1849. P. 7. Google Books

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