This brilliantly chilling film, a unique mix of Psycho, Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. It tells the story of one Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf HruÅ¡Ãnský), a professional cremator, for whom the political climate allows free rein to his increasingly perverse and deranged impulses for the salvation of the world'. Now more chillingly prescient than ever, The Cremator also contains another of master-composer ZdenÄk LiÅ¡ka's brilliantly inventive film scores. Presented from a new HD transfer this region-free... Blu-ray special edition includes Herz's rarely-seen 1965 debut short film The Junk Shop (SbÄrné surovosti), a new audio commentary by Kat Ellinger and a filmed introduction by the Quay Brothers. [show more]
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Foreign drama based on the novel by Ladislav Fuks. The film centres around the demonic, death obsessed Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrusinsky). He is the owner of a crematorium in the early stages of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia who finds in the situation an opportunity to fulfil his business ambitions, justify his anti-Semitism and exert his obsession for control. His discovery that his wife has 'impure' blood sends him a psychopathic spiral that leads to the murder of her and their son.
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