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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
A deliciously demented Czech time-travel romp that's both hilariously silly and impressively ingenious.
Director: Jindrich Polák
Overview
In the near future, time travel is possible. This allows a band of neo-Nazis to hijack a time ship in order to go back to 1944 and deliver a hydrogen bomb to Hitler, thus securing victory in World War Two. The result is a gloriously madcap and chaotic plotline, peppered with throwaway gags involving anti-ageing pills, green incapacitating spray and even dissolving dishwashing detergent.
Best known for the 1963 sci-fi classic Ikarie XB-1, Czech director Jindřich Polák’s film expertly blends disparate elements to create a work of immense pleasure. It's unpredictable, irreverent, intelligent and wildly funny. One of the great undiscovered sci-fi gems of the 70s,
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