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• Verdi: La Forza Del Destino | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £25.59   |  Saving you £4.40 (17.19%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Lancelot du Lac | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the International Critics Prize at Cannes in 1974 Lancelot Du Lac Bresson's masterpiece has lost none of its power and continues to cast a mystical spell. In this compelling and hypnotic film about the Arthurian legend the Knights of the Round Table their numbers depleted by their bloody and fruitless quest for the Holy Grail return to King Arthur's court. Once there Lancelot's passionate relationship with Queen Guinevere causes the Knights to fall out amongst themselves eventually leading to their downfall.

• Gianni Schicchi - Puccini | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £16.37   |  Saving you £3.62 (18.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alessandro Corbelli takes the title role in Annabel Arden's whirlwind production of Puccini's compact opera in which the scheming Gianni Schicchi retrieves for himself the spoils of a disinherited family to pave the way for his daughter to marry her love.

• Night Watch | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £4.09   |  Saving you £15.90 (388.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Good and evil do battle in this epic Russian tale of Witches, Vampires and Shape-Shifters.

• Night Watch | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (75.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Good and evil do battle in this epic Russian tale of Witches, Vampires and Shape-Shifters.

• Black Eagle | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  MARTIAL ARTS LEGEND SHO KOSUGI FACES OFF AGAINST ACTION MOVIE STAR JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME IN THIS 80s ACTION CLASSIC FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE OCTAGON After an F11 fighter plane gets shot down over the Mediterranean Sea the U.S. Government cannot afford to lose the top-secret laser tracking device on board. But unfortunately the KGB team lead by the infamous Andrei (Jean-Claude-Van-Damme) are beating the CIA in the race to find it. The CIA has no choice but to call in their best man master martial artist Ken Tani (Sho Kosugi) code name...Black Eagle. In response the KGB resorts to an all-out war with the powerful Andrei matching Ken blow for blow.

• Koktebel | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £12.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (54.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Koktebel' is the award winning first feature by two Russian film makers Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky. They are part of the Russian New Wave of young directors and their script won the European Pitch Point Event in Berlin in 2001. After his wife's death and the loss of his job an aerodynamics engineer sets off from Moscow with his 11 year old son for his sister's house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money nor means of transport they drift through the expansive a

• Divided We Fall | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Oscar nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the winner of five prestigious Czech Lions Awards 'Divided We Fall' is a delicious black comedy which deftly deals with the compromises forced upon ordinary people during wartime. Based on real life events in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia Divided We Fall tells the tale of childless couple josef and Marie Cizek who offer refuge to David a young Jew fleeing from his persecutors. However when a Nazi official also ta

• Earth | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £11.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (55.22%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Dovzhenko's landmark 'film poem' style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian workers examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life death violence sex and other issues as they relate to the collective farms. An idealistic vision of the possibilities of communism made just before Stalinism set in and the Kulack class was liquidated Earth was viewed negatively by many soviets because of its portrayal of death and other dark issues that come with revolution.

• Schubert: The Trout / The Greatest Love And The Greatest Sorrow | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Trout is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself who wrote his famous Trout quintet when he was 22 years old and then from five young artists of the highest rank. They pick up the spirit of Schubert's music magnificently both in preparation and rehearsal and in their 1969 performance of the work which has become one of the most remembered ever given.The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer not to the details of Schubert's life but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried to brighten the world. The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven at which Schubert was a torch-bearer and the story is told almost entirely in music that Schubert wrote in the twenty months that remained to him after that date together with quotations from his letters and diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs.

• The Threepenny Opera | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £7.66   |  Saving you £12.33 (160.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The original French and German versions of this Brecht-Weill musical are included with subtitles - 'Die Dreigroschenoper' and 'L'Opera De Quat' Sous'. Set in a dreamlike Victorian London this musical tells the story of Mack the Knife and Polly Peachum.

• Humperkinck: Hansel and Gretel | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-1.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Christine Sch''fer Alice Coote and Vladimir Jurowski triumph in Humperdinck's first and most successful opera - filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in Hi-Definition. This irresistibly delicious new English-language production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel is the first 'Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series' release following EMI Classic's recent collaboration with the Met. The Brothers Grimm fairy tale a timeless children's favourite features a sophisticated score and this intriguing new staging will appeal to audiences of all ages. Alice Coote and Christine Sch''fer are charming as Hansel and Gretel. The role of the Witch written for a mezzo-soprano is sometimes sung by a tenor - as is the case in this production - with Philip Langridge in the role. Vladimir Jurowski one of the world's most sought-after conductors leads Germany's dearest opera with a sensitive account of Humperdinck's enchanting score. Hansel and Gretel is considered by many as the salvation of German opera bringing relief from the murky Wagnerian depths of Teutonic myth and initiating a return to the shimmering world of the fairy tale. In 1923 Hansel and Gretel became the first complete opera to be broadcast on radio from Covent Garden ; Eight years later it was the first to be broadcast from the New York Met. It is significant therefore that this is one of the eight operas chosen to be in this season's Met HD transmissions. Beautifully staged by Richard Jones and moodily designed by John Macfarlane this dark and eccentric production is tough and dark sparse and savage an exploration of deprivation cruelty and gluttony in a contemporary always-always-land. (Financial Times)

• Tchaikovsky - the Nutcracker (Mariinsky Ballet Orchestra) | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, performed by Artists of the Mariinsky Ballet, Students of the Academy of Russian Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, and conducted by Valery Gergiev.

• Ward No. 6 | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (55.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Far on the outskirts of Moscow, Dr. Ragin presides over a mental hospital where thoughtful discussion is in very short supply. His only intellectual stimulation comes from his rich philosophical debates with Gromov, a highly intelligent yet deeply disturbed patient at the asylum. In time, however, Gromov's madness begins to rub off on Dr. Ragin. A bold new take on a literary classic, Ward No. 6 updates the story's original 19th Century setting to present day, and intercuts conversations with actual Moscow mental patients with Chekhov's story to striking effect. Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Gornovsky, adapted from legendary author Anton Chekhov's haunting short story.

• Black Eagle | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  After an F-11 gets shot down over the Mediterranean Sea the U.S. government cannot afford to lose the top-secret laser tracking device that was on board. But unfortunately the KGB team lead by the infamous Andrei (Jean-Claude Van Damme) are beating the CIA in the race to find it. The CIA has no choice but to call in their best man master martial-artist Ken Tani (Sho Kosugi) code name Black Eagle. In response the KGB resorts to an all-out war with the powerful Andrei matching Ken blow for blow.

• Nutcracker (The Bolshoi Ballet) | DVD | (30/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.15

• Ivan The Terrible - Part 1 And Part 2 - The Boyars Plot | DVD | (12/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Sergei Eisenstein's saga of Czar Ivan IV continues with the struggle for power and the use of secret police, a controversial segment that caused the film to be banned by Stalin in 1946 (the film was not released until 1958). The predominantly black-and-white film features a banquet dance sequence in colour. Obviously the two parts must be viewed as a whole to be fully appreciated. Many film historians consider this period in Eisenstein's career less interesting than his silent period because of a sentimental return to archaic forms (characteristic of Soviet society in the 1930s and '40s). Perhaps it was just part of his maturity. --Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com

• Great Dancers Of Our Time | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three of the most fascinating dancers on the current international ballet scene in Germany present their favourite choreographies each solo- or pas-de-deux-choreography introduced by the dancer.

• Dersu Uzala (Imprint Limited Edition Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (07/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dancing At The Blue Iguana | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £15.05   |  Saving you £-5.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A glimpse into the often misunderstood world of the strip club that follows the lives of five dancers and the lives of those around them as they all converge over a single week.