The Cassandra Cat

The Cassandra Cat
Theatrical release poster
Czech	Až přijde kocour
Directed by	Vojtěch Jasný
Written by	Jiří Brdečka Vojtěch Jasný Jan Werich
Produced by	Jaroslav Jílovec
Starring	Vlastimil Brodský Jan Werich Jiří Sovák Emília Vášáryová Vladimír Menšík Jiřina Bohdalová
Cinematography	Jaroslav Kučera
Edited by	Jan Chaloupek
Music by	Svatopluk Havelka
Production company	Barrandov Studios
Distributed by	Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Release dates	May 1963 (1963-05) (Cannes) 20 September 1963 (1963-09-20) (Czechoslovakia)
Running time	91 minutes or 101 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

The Cassandra Cat (Czech: Až přijde kocour, lit. 'When the Cat Comes'; also released under the titles When the Cat Comes, The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses, One Day, a Cat and That Cat) is a 1963 Czechoslovak New Wave satirical^[1] surrealistic^[2] fantasy comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Vojtěch Jasný.

One of the most celebrated, influential and expressive pictures of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema, and although on its surface it is a family-friendly, light-hearted, colourful fantasy dramedy film, in its core the film is subtly a political allegory for authoritarianism, false appearances and hypocrisy, with the cat symbolic being able to see the people of the town for their true colours.