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Spalovač mrtvol / Filmové Studio Barrandov nositel Řádu Práce ; scénář, Ladislav Fuks, Juraj Herz ; režie, Juraj Herz.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 426 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1023.
- Criterion Collection ; 1023
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cremation--Drama.
- Cremation.
- Crematoriums--Czech Republic--Drama.
- Crematoriums.
- Insanity (Law)--Czech Republic--Drama.
- Insanity (Law).
- Czech Republic.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Fiction films.
- Horror films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Motion pictures, Czechoslovakian.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 leaf : illustrations ; folded to 18 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Criterion collection.
- Other Title:
- Cremator
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Czech dialogue; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.66:1); monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Karl Kopfrkingl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs.
- Participant:
- Rudolf Hrušínský , Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnova, Miloš Vognič, Zora Bozinová, Ilja Prachar, Eduard Kohout, Míla Myslíková, Vladimír Menšík.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Stanislav Milota ; film editor, Jaromír Janácek ; music, Zdeněk Liška ; costume designer, Olga Dimitrovová ; production designer, Zbynek Hloch.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.
- Based on the novel by Ladislav Fuks.
- Wide screen (1.66:1).
- Special edition features: The junk shop, director Juraj Herz's 1950 debut short film; short documentary from 2011; new interview with film programmer Irena Kovarova about the style of the film; documentary from 2017 about composer; interview with actor Rudolf Hrusinsky from 1993; trailer; plus an essay by scholar Jonathan Owen.
- ISBN:
- 9781681436944
- 1681436949
- OCLC:
- 1141769254
- Publisher Number:
- 715515244312
- CC3136DDVD The Criterion Collection
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