A rare Anglo-Czech co-production, 90° in the Shade is a fascinating, little-seen drama directed by Jirà Weiss (Romeo, Juliet and Darkness) and co-written by David Mercer (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment). Set at the height of summer, the film concerns shop assistant Anne Heywood (The Fox), and two men who will affect her life: James Booth (The Man Who Had Power Over Women), the married man with whom she is having affair, and Rudolf HrusÃnský (The Cremator), an auditor who has family problems of his own. Filmed simultaneously in English and Czech versions, Indicator is proud to present both cuts on Blu-ray for the first time ever.
A rare gem of a film that was a British/Czech co-production filmed in Prague before the Soviet clampdown of 1968 and nominated for the 1966 Golden Globe award for best English foreign language film. Vorell (James Booth) is a flighty married man with little concern for anyone other than himself. He has recently ended an affair with co-worker Alena (Anne Heywood) the manageress of a liquor store in communist Prague but when a government inspector Mr Kurka (Rudolf Hrusnsk) arrives to check their inventory it soon becomes apparent that Vorell is running a scam to sell liquor on the black market. Scared for his job and reputation Vorell leans on Alena reigniting their affair under the watchful and lecherous eyes of the emasculated Mr Kurka whose wife (Ann Todd) is an alcoholic unwilling to have sex with him. As the temperature of Pragues summer reaches ninety degrees in the shade the heat of lust and envy in the liquor store inevitably leads to violence and death
Pavel a young student living in Prague in 1942 hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel's mother who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.
Marius Goring narrates Humphrey Jennings' film of the extraordinary story of Lale Andersen the singer whose record became a battle song for troops on both sides in World War II. Goebbels detested the song and contrived to have Andersen placed in a concentration camp. Also features Before The Raid another true story of Norwegian fishermen repelling German soldiers who were plundering their catch from their small fishing village.
Three more superb DVDs from our famous 40s Britain documentary film series about the Britain in the 1940s, packaged together in a bargain priced collection in a standard-sized DVD case. Includes the following DVDs: Over Paid Over Sexed and Over Here, Women & Children At War, and The True Story of Lili Marlene.
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