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.
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
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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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