The team also had the honor of attending the FRC Championship in Atlanta. The team also garnered the Silicon Valley Regional ‘Xerox Creativiy in Design’ – Sadie consists of 3 red push brooms, 2 black garden hoses, and a cardboard tube. Efficient design, construction, and execution enabled the team to perform very well at both regional competitions it participated in, the UC Davis Sacramento Regional and the Silicon Valley Regional. ![]() Sadie can also extremely rapidly deposit balls into other robots’ trailers, thus gaining a significant strategic advantage. The film grossed $48,324 in the US and $85,658 from foreign markets for a grand total of $133,982.Over the course of the 2009 season, the team powered through to create Sadie, an innovative robot able to store up to fifteen balls by “sweeping” them up into her frame using brushes. He orders the first round of corporal punishment treatment: two orderlies stuff Jean into a straitjacket and carry him away. This sets off one of his violent hallucinations, and Dr. Coulmiere's room preparing for a night of sexual pleasures. Jean has trouble sleeping, and seeks out Charlota for comfort, but her room is empty. Coulmiere will not permit Jean to leave until 8am, per the usual protocol. Now that Charlota has been rescued, Jean expects to leave with her and get married, but Dr. Murlloppe, the Marquis, and Dominik are tracked down and are each given severe punishments. Coulmiere thanks Jean for releasing them, and explains his philosophy that corporal punishment is key to treating mental illness by balancing the mind and the body, and that Murlloppe's idea of curing it with "freedom" is absurd. Jean finds them tarred and feathered in the basement, and releases the men, who waste no time in beating all the patients and shoving them back into their cells. On the one year anniversary of their revolt, Murlloppe, the Marquis, and Dominik take Charlota with them for a ritual orgy, and Charlota tells Jean it is his only chance to free the staff. The Marquis tells Jean that Charlota is a " nymphomaniac" and likes to tell complex fabricated stories as a form of foreplay. Jean falls for a beautiful nurse named Charlota (Geislerova), who claims she is being held at the hospital against her will, and reveals that Murlloppe and the Marquis were previous patients who led a revolt and locked the real asylum employees in the basement. Murlloppe (Dusek), who offers "Purgative Therapy" for people who are not mad but could be in the future. The Marquis suggests a therapy that could help with Jean's nightmares: voluntarily committing himself to an asylum managed by his friend Dr. His mother had died after being buried alive, and he finds it therapeutic to relive this childhood memory that haunts him. The next morning Jean and Dominik are awakened by a bell, and after opening the stone of the mausoleum, the Marquis reveals it had all been an elaborate prank. The Marquis drops dead after choking on a banana the following day, and Jean is ordered at gunpoint to assist the servant Dominik (Nový) in burying the coffin in the family mausoleum. Jean strikes up an alliance with the Marquis, though they can hardly be called friends, but is horrified by the Marquis' debauchery, namely the blasphemous orgy that Jean spies through an open window. While arranging his mother's funeral, Jean meets a fellow who claims to be the Marquis de Sade (Triska) and lives as if he is in 18th-century France rather than the 21st-century Czech Republic. Jean Berlot (Liska) is a deeply troubled man who has been haunted by violent hallucinations of being stuffed into a straitjacket by two orderlies since the death of his mother, who was committed to a mental institution before she passed on. The film was shot between October 2004 and April 2005, on location in the village of Peruc close to Prague, and in Švankmajer's studio in the village of Knovíz. ![]() It is also partly inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. The film is loosely based on two short stories, " The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845) and " The Premature Burial" (1844), by Edgar Allan Poe. Lunacy ( Czech: Šílení) is a 2005 Czech film by Jan Švankmajer.
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