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Charlatan / Films Boutique ; Marlene Film Production presents ; in co-production with Film & Music Entertainment Ireland Ltd. ; in co-production with Madants, Studio Metrage, Moderator Inwestycje ; Furia Film ; Czech Television ; Barrandov Studio ; Rozhlas a Televízia Slovenska, Certicon, Vladimír a Tatána Maříkov, Magic Lab ; idea by Martin Šulc, Jaroslav Sedlaček ; produced by Šárka Cimbalová, Kevan Van Thompson ; written by Marek Epstein ; direced by Agnieszka Holland.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 036 936
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Healers--Drama.
- Healers.
- Alternative medicine--Czechoslovakia--Drama.
- Alternative medicine.
- Czechoslovakia--History--20th century--Drama.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Czech language materials.
- Genre:
- Foreign films.
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- History
- Biographical films.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Czech.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome.
- Other Title:
- Also known as : Šarlatán
- Place of Publication:
- [Culver City, CA] : Strand Releasing, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Czech and German dialogue; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1:85) presentation; 5.1 surround audio; [color]
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Jan Mikolasek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for 'urinary diagnosis'. But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell, his assistant, Frantisek. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan's dichotomies are put to a final test, with the fate of his life's only love in the balance. A personal tale as replete with twists as the century itself, and a reflection on the price one pays for single-mindedly following one's calling.
- Jan Mikolasek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for 'urinary diagnosis'. But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one perso0n could ever quell, his assistant, Frantisek. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan's dichotomies are put to a final test, with the fate of his life's only love in the balance. A personal tale as replete with twists as the century itself, and a reflection on the price one pays for single-mindedly following one's calling.
- Participant:
- Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná
- Credits:
- Music, Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz ; director of photography, Martin Štrba ; editor, Pavel Hrdlička.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2020.
- Special features: original theatrical trailer; other Strand trailers
- OCLC:
- 1268150499
- Publisher Number:
- 712267411320
- 4113-2 Strand Releasing
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