"Actor: Michalina Olszanska"

• The Lure | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mermaids take the stage in Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska's horror musical, a cult classic in the making. This genre-defying horror-musical mash-upthe bold debut of Polish director AGNIESZKA SMOCZYNSKA follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, in which the girls' bond is tested and their survival threatened after one sister falls for a human. A coming-of-age fairy tale with a catchy synth-fuelled soundtrack, outrageous song-and-dance numbers, and lavishly grimy sets, The Lure explores its themes of emerging female sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with savage energy and originality. BONUS FEATURES DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: High-definition digital master, supervised by director of photography Kuba Kijowski, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New program about the making of the film, featuring interviews with director Agnieszka Smoczynska, actors Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszanska, screenwriter Robert Bolesto, Kijowski, composers Barbara and Zuzanna Wronski, sound designer Marcin Lenarczyk, and choreographer Kaya Kołodziejczyk Deleted scenes Aria Diva (2007) and Viva Maria! (2010), two short films directed by Smoczynska New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by writer Angela Lovell

• The Occupation | DVD | (30/03/2020) from £6.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Occupation tells the true story of Sara Guralnick, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend's identity and finds refuge in a small village where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.