Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

[ffutures]

I was just writing a fanlore entry on the Czech film Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977), based on a Josef Nesvadba story, and it turns out to be on Youtube with English subtitles. If you like time travel comedy, Nazis trying to win WW2, and ridiculously complicated time loops it's well worth a look.

Comments

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

It reminded me of Classic Who in many ways, although they would have not have had so much timey-wimey back in the 1970s. I wonder if Moffat saw it when it was shown on BBC2 in ~1982?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It was apparently shown on BBC2 circa 1981, and at a UK SF con where Nesvadba was GOH - really can't remember which one - so it's entirely possible.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think the 1984 Eastercon in Brighton.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it wasn't Wincon II in 1991, where he was a GoH? I recall seeing it at a convention, and I didn't come into fandom until the late 1980s.

[timill]

That was my memory, too.

Tim

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - that sounds plausible.

[timill]

That is - Seacon '84 rather than Wincon 2, though that's plausible as well.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Definitely a Wincon. It was the one John Richards tells the story about the reporter from the local paper asking to interview someone and when they suggested Nesvadba, he asked didn't they have any local authors he could interview. Before The League of Gentlemen made it its catchphrase, he worked for a local paper for local people.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

I saw it then.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

So did I - and it still holds up surprisingly well, at least as a nice complicated time paradox story.