Zbynek Brynych's award-winning film presents a vivid and realistic picture of the infamous Terezín Ghetto under Nazi control during World War II. The Ghetto was an international marshaling community in Czechslaovakia where thousands of Jews from around Europe were held before being told they were being simply transferred to other towns - when they were in fact being sent to their deaths in the concentration camps. Beneath the apparent serenity of everyday life in the Ghetto the film slowly gathers a sense of the cold grip of terror in the Nazi's purposeful grotesque preparations for genocide. This haunting feature is presented for the first time ever in the UK. Special Features: Booklet Essay
From director Juraj Herz comes this horror classic of Czech New Wave cinema about a Cremator who begins to lose his mind and turns his business into a chamber of torture of murder! Based on the novel of the same name by Ladislav Fuks the film centres around a truly chilling lead performance by Rudolf Hrusinsky as the demonic death obsessed Karl Kopfrkingl. He is the owner of a crematorium in the early stages of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia who finds in the situation an opp
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