Abstract
The study deals with the film Murdering the Devil (Vražda ing. Čerta, 1970), directed by costume designer Ester Kumbachová, and its various media mutations (film story, radio adaptation, screenplay). The film involves three elements - elaborate mise-en-scene, buzzing orality, philosophical humour - which present exciting traces of the intellectual and artistic life of Ester Krumbachová.
This film was chosen precisely because it allows us to unravel the transitional period in which the creative atmosphere of the Sixties still lingered but the basic features of normalization were already prefigured. The study also aims to show the diversity of Krumbachová's work, the reasons why the film was not received well in its era and in what ways it can be important for current theoretical research.