A modern fairy tale, Cassandra Cat takes place in a small Czech town that is visited suddenly by an old magician, his beautiful assistant, and a cat endowed with the strange power to reveal people’s true natures. A remarkable blending of fantasy and everyay life, the film won the Special Jury prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. As its director, Vojtech Jasny has noted, "My film may be viewed as a fairy tale, a comedy, a ballet or even an opera. But most of all, it is a kind of philosophical, topical narrative." Jasny, who left Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet invasion and worked for more than a decade in West Germany, currently lectures on film at New York University.