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| Title: | Author: | Description: |
|---|---|---|
| Once | English and Czech dialogue. Oscar-winning (un)romantic comedy in which an Irish busker and a young Czech mother bond through their shared love of music in modern Dublin. | |
| Director: Carney, J., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Audition/Talent Competition | Forman's debut film that launched what became known internationally as the Czech New Wave. Although made as two separate "featurettes', the style and themes were very similar and they were released as one film. | |
| Director: Forman, M., Certificate: E, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Mandragora | ||
| Director: Grodecki, W., Certificate: 18, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Not Angels But Angels | ||
| Director: Grodecki, W., Certificate: 18, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| The Cremator | This brilliantly chilling film, a mix of Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation. It tells the story of Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrusínský), a professional cremator, for whom the political climate allows free rein to his increasingly deranged impulses for the ’salvation of the world’. | |
| Director: Herz, J., Certificate: 15, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Divided We Fall | ||
| Director: Hřebejk, J. & P. Jarchovský, Certificate: PG, Colour, Price: £15.99 | ||
| Post Coitum | An adult comedy of lost souls bed-hopping their way through life! | |
| Director: Jakubisko, J., Certificate: 18, Colour, Price: £15.99 | ||
| Valerie and her week of wonders | ||
| Director: Jires, J., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £12.99 | ||
| The Ear | Although made in 1970, The Ear (Ucho) was immediately banned by the Czech authorities and remained unseen for twenty years, being finally released only after the Velvet Revolution took place in Czechoslovakia. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship. | |
| Director: Kachyna, K., Certificate: 12, Original Title: Ucho, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Czech Dream | ||
| Director: Klusak, V. & F. Remunda, Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Closely Observed Trains | ||
| Director: Menzel, J., Certificate: 15, B&W, Price: £17.99 | ||
| The Party and the Guests | Distinguished by being "banned forever" in its native Czechoslovakia, Němec's film is a masterpiece of barbed, darkly sinister wit. As a biting satire of authoritarianism and conformity and with its astute observations of human nature, the film's universal relevance continues to this day. Considered the most politically dangerous film made during the short flowering of Czech cinema in the 1960's, this is its first-ever release on DVD. | |
| Director: Němec, J., Certificate: U, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Intimate lighting | This wonderfully subtle comedy of provincial life is the debut film of a great director and one of the signature works of the Czech New Wave. Ivan Passer’s film concerns the dreams of two musician friends, one of whom, having left their small hometown to become successful, returns to visit the other who stayed behind to become a local music teacher. | |
| Director: Passer, I., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Pat & Mat | Two DVD edition of classic Czech animation featuring the two hopeless handymen. | |
| Price: £14.99 | ||
| Dark blue world | Czech, English, German and Slovak dialogue. | |
| Director: Sverák, J., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Kolya | In Czech and Russian | |
| Director: Sverak, J., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £15.99 | ||
| Marketa Lazarová | Voted the best Czech film ever made, Marketa Lazarová is a powerful and passionate medieval epic set in the mid-13th Century. Based on avant-garde writer Vladislav Vancura's novel, it follows the rivalry between two warring clans, the Kozlíks and the Lazars, and the doomed love affair of Mikolás Kozlík and Marketa Lazarová. | |
| Director: Vlacil, F., Certificate: 15, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Romeo, Juliet and Darkness | A young man shelters a fugitive Jewish girl in the attic of his apartment building during the brutal 1942 Nazi occupation of Prague, becoming her only link to the outside world. Fear, anxiety and suspicion soon turn into gratitude and love between them. A poetic and beautifully-filmed drama which examines the consequences of their actions. This is the first ever DVD release of the film anywhere in the world. | |
| Director: Weiss, J., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
