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A pátý Jez̧dec je Strach = The fifth rider is fear / Filmové Studio Barrandov uvádi Československý Filmexport ; produced by Carlo Ponti for Sigma III and Barrandov Studio ; written by Hana Belohradska, Zbynek Brynych, Ota Koval and Ester Krumbachova ; directed by Zbynek Brynych.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 793 DVD + booklet
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LIBRA DVD PN1997 .F54 2006 DVD + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Masterpiece collection (Facets Video (Firm))
- The masterpiece collection
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Drama.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century--Drama.
- Jews.
- Physicians (General practice)--Czechoslovakia--Drama.
- Physicians (General practice).
- History.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945--Drama.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Physicians in motion pictures.
- Melodrama.
- Genre:
- Motion pictures, Czech.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- History.
- Medical drama (Films)
- Melodrama.
- War films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Feature films -- Czechoslovakia.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Fifth rider is fear
- Container title: Fifth horseman is fear
- And the fifth horseman is fear
- Legacy of the holocaust.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Facets Video, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In Czech with subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, all regions; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; monaural.
- digital optical monaural
- widescreen (2.35:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video all regions
- Summary:
- An aging Jewish doctor is forbidden to practice medicine in Prague during the Nazi occupation. He is employed in a warehouse as a clerk, cataloguing confiscated Jewish property. When a partisan is wounded, the doctor reluctantly agrees to treat him. The doctor hides him in his run-down apartment building as he sneaks through the black-market underworld of Prague in search of morphine to ease the man's pain, ever fearful of informant neighbors and vigilant authorities. Within a historical context, director Zbyněk Brynych creates a thinly-disguised allegory about contemporary communist Czechoslovakia that is rich in atmosphere and dark in tone. The expressionist cinematography and stellar performances make this lost masterwork an unforgettable viewing experience.
- Participant:
- Miroslav Machacek, Olga Scheinpflugova, Jiří Adamira, Illia Prachar, Josef Vinklar, Zdenka Prochazkova, Slavka Budinova, Jiri Virtala.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jan Kališ; cinematographer, Jan Kalis; editor, Miroslav Hájek; music, Jiří Sternwald; idea, Hana Bělohradská; dramaturgists, Věra Kálabová, Radovan Kalina.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1964.
- "Newly remastered from a restored print from the National Archives"--Container.
- Special features: onscreen introduction by Andrew Horton of Kinoeye; Facets Cine-Notes collectible booklet.
- Local Notes:
- Issued by the publisher as part of a two-disc set under the title: Legacy of the holocaust : an exclusive Facets 2-pack. University of Pennsylvania Libraries have cataloged these discs separately. For the other title in this set, see Daleck ceska = Distant journey / [1949] / directed by Alfred Radok.
- ISBN:
- 156580547X
- 9781565805477
- OCLC:
- 70592083
- Publisher Number:
- 736899099121
- DV76925 Facets Video
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