Looking for Toxin X

Looking for Toxin X (Czech: Hledá se Toxin X) is a short Czechoslovakian popular science documentary about LSD.

Looking for Toxin X (Czech: Hledá se Toxin X)
CzechHledá se Toxin X
Directed byVladimír Kabelík[1]
Produced byZdenek Novák (Krátký Film Praha)
Screenplay byVladimír Kabelík
Starring
  • Stanislav Grof[2]
  • Petr Oliva
Narrated byVaclav Voska
Music byJan Klusák
CinematographySvatopluk Malý
Production
companies
Krátký Film Praha
Distributed byUstredni Pujcovna Filmu
Running time
15 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguageCzech

Plot

A dose of LSD is given to a DAMU theatre student, Petr Oliva, by the Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. Special effects convey the subjective experience of the experimental subject. The film's central premise is the search for ‘toxin x’, which is supposed to be at the root of all mental disorders. The medics believe that LSD will help them locate it.[3]

Cast

Production

The whole film crew were also given LSD during filming. The experimental subject Oliva (who went on to become a prominent Czech actor) later recalled that the reason everyone was given the drug was because, “we had to see for ourselves what happens to a person [when they are given the drug].”[3]

Excerpts from the film appear in the documentary LSD made in ČSSR (2015) directed by Pavel Křemen.”[3]

References
  1. Hleda se toxin X. IMDB.
  2. Hledá se toxin X. csfd.cz
  3. Kaczorowski, Aleksander (trans. Figiel, Joanna) (05.12.2018). A Communist LSD Trip: The Story of Czechoslovak Acid. przekroj.pl
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