"Director: Juraj Herz"

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  • The Cremator [Blu-ray] [Region Free]The Cremator | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    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 Hrušínský), 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 Zdeněk 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 (Sběrné surovosti), a new audio commentary by Kat Ellinger and a filmed introduction by the Quay Brothers.

  • The Cremator [1968]The Cremator | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    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

  • Morgiana [DVD]Morgiana | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Morgiana

  • The Czechoslovak New Wave - A Collection (3 Film Box Set) [DVD]The Czechoslovak New Wave - A Collection (3 Film Box Set) | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

    A 3-disc set comprising three integral features from the most creative period of Czechoslovak cinema. Despite being made under the gaze of Government censors ; these films achieved a miraculous marriage of content and form despite the most oppressive circumstances. Set includes: Diamonds of the Night (1964): Nemec's debut feature is one of the most thrilling and startlingly original works of cinema. Told almost without dialogue ; it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two t...

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