Und die Kinder spielen so gern Soldaten

And the children love to play soldiers This 10minute antiwar film lost to posterity was a very loose adaptation of Franz Kafkas short story In the Penal Colony Vesely presents the execution of a prisoner of war as a serial event that happens over and over again ad nauseum As of this project Tichat worked as set designer and occasional coauthor for Vesely here also appearing in front of the camera as an actor together with HC Artmann Gerhard Ruhm contributed his Musique concrete to the soundtrack