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This review was first published for the Made in Prague and Polish Kinoteca Film festival in 2020.
Charlatan is based on the true story of Jan Mikolášek (Ivan Trojan) who learns how to diagnose patient s illness by examining their urine and treating them through herbs and faith.
Jan from the opening scenes has done well for himself with long queues outside his home and surgery seeking treatment. It’s a large operation employing nurses and auxiliaries in his hospital. He has a personal assistant Frantisek Palko (Juraj Loj) who dutifully sits in on the consultations taking detailed notes.
But this is post-war Czechoslovakia and the communist regime is in power with its agents and tentacles everywhere, and they don’t like his operations. As far as they are concerned, he is fraud exploiting the masses for self-interest. ....

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