ffutures: (marcus 2013)
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I was just writing a fanlore entry on the Czech film Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977), based on a Josef Nesvadba story, and it turns out to be on Youtube with English subtitles. If you like time travel comedy, Nazis trying to win WW2, and ridiculously complicated time loops it's well worth a look.

Date: 2015-06-21 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pmcray.livejournal.com
It reminded me of Classic Who in many ways, although they would have not have had so much timey-wimey back in the 1970s. I wonder if Moffat saw it when it was shown on BBC2 in ~1982?

Date: 2015-06-21 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
It was apparently shown on BBC2 circa 1981, and at a UK SF con where Nesvadba was GOH - really can't remember which one - so it's entirely possible.

Date: 2015-06-21 10:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
I think the 1984 Eastercon in Brighton.

Date: 2015-06-21 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com
Are you sure it wasn't Wincon II in 1991, where he was a GoH? I recall seeing it at a convention, and I didn't come into fandom until the late 1980s.

Date: 2015-06-21 11:00 pm (UTC)
timill: (Default)
From: [personal profile] timill
That was my memory, too.

Tim

Date: 2015-06-21 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Thanks - that sounds plausible.

Date: 2015-06-21 11:10 pm (UTC)
timill: (Default)
From: [personal profile] timill
That is - Seacon '84 rather than Wincon 2, though that's plausible as well.

Date: 2015-06-22 07:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pauldormer.livejournal.com
Definitely a Wincon. It was the one John Richards tells the story about the reporter from the local paper asking to interview someone and when they suggested Nesvadba, he asked didn't they have any local authors he could interview. Before The League of Gentlemen made it its catchphrase, he worked for a local paper for local people.

Date: 2015-06-24 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
So did I - and it still holds up surprisingly well, at least as a nice complicated time paradox story.

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