Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

Overrated and overhyped

Nice effects though.

Good concept, poorly executed.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I finally found this film on the web! So it wasn't just my imagination. I rank this as amongst the very best films I've ever seen. I saw it some 25-30 years ago on British TV as part of what must have been a foreign film series on BBC2. The complexity of the plot and the straight-faced comedy are superb. Who can forget the nonchalant way the star says words to the effect 'it doesn't matter' when someone bounces on the trampoline and over the side of the building, or the Nazi's killing themselves off? There was also a good French film (about a ?hitman who commits suicide in a hotel and the man in the next room gets mistaken for him) but this is the only one I remember the name of. Now to go back and read the other people's comments... And then to try to find it on DVD somewhere.

Here's a film that is improved by knowing its context. Czech films just aren't very good. It isn't that Czechs aren't clever or intelligent. And they do have a rich stage culture. But some cultures map cinematically and some don't. And those that do, map in different ways. Fascinating. However, this film has a very clever story. And it is more clever than it seems, because of the way we are spoonfed the answers. A man goes back in time to create a double, changing events. Its a bit elaborate, involving Hitler and latter-day Nazis, but that's beside the point.The complexity is really about the doubles and working out the intercessions. Loves and affairs. Some clever humor here, similar to the Shakespearian bits about disguises.It all ends well, and there is no puzzle, unlike, say "Primer." But wait! Actually there is. There's a hint that the fact that our hero has a twin is a result of the doubling, and that the events will repeat over and over again later.I searched this odd film out in my quest for the quintessential Czech movie. This may be it. (The production values are poor.)Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

I saw this movie years ago and have few more memories than the other reviewers. However, it has always remained in my mind and I have been looking for it online for years. I actually thought that it was called 'Tomorrow I will be scalding myself with hot coffee'.I recall the doppleganger space pilot twin and the fact that the no hoper, non-pilot came back and took the place of his more successful brother. It was all very thought provoking.I have spoken to many people about it, nobody else I know has seen it. If ever anybody gets hold of it I would love to see it again. Despite it being in subtitles it obviously had a profound effect on me!

I too saw this as a young teenager one night on BBC2 in the very early eighties. Over twenty years later I still remember it. I would love to see it again. All I can remember is that it involved time travel, eastern Europe (aka the Communist countries), a balcony, a sequence of going back to the same moment and place in time repeatedly and a cup of tea getting spilled on someones hand (perhaps more than once).It was very clever, very funny and had a happy ending.That night on BBC2 must have been the only time it was ever shown to a wide audience. I'm amazed that it seems never to have been screened again. Is it because it only appealed to 13 year-olds? There are things I've grown tired of since that age but, right now, there is nothing that I recall having completely changed my mind over. So I would probably still love it!Find it! Watch it! Again!