"Director: Krzysztof Zanussi"

• Polish Cinema Classics Vol.III (3 DVD Box Set) | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £40.15   |  Saving you £-5.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A third volume of our acclaimed POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS series. Second Run DVD presents three celebrated works of Polish Cinema, fully restored and presented from new HD digital transfers with restored picture and sound with new English subtitle translations. All three films are released for the first time ever in the UK. Marek Piwowski THE CRUISE (Rejs, 1970) Regarded as Polish cinema s first cult film, Piwowski s absurdist comedy parodies life in the (then) People's Republic of Poland, reducing a weekend river cruise to a hilarious satire of the entire Communist system. Piwowski's gift of observation, humour and an acute awareness of national pathology have made THE CRUISE one of Poland s most popular and widely-known films of the 1970s. Krzysztof Zanussi - CAMOUFLAGE (Barwy ochronne, 1976) A milestone in Polish cinema, CAMOUFLAGE probes deeply into the moral fabric of the society underlying Poland's regime. What Zanussi finds there - corruption, disillusionment, and a generally confused set of public and moral values - marks CAMOUFLAGE among Zanussi s greatest and most politically subversive works. Wojciech Marczewski - SHIVERS (Dreszcze, 1981) SHIVERS is a coming-of-age story set in the 1950s at a Stalinist youth camp. 13 year old Tomek is sent to a camp where he falls under the spell of a an idealistic but manipulative young woman. His captivation with this woman parallels his growing enchantment with Stalinist ideology, and Marczewski s film daringly explores themes of erotic and political fascinations, and of institutional indoctrination and manipulation. All three films are presented in new HD digital transfers with restored picture and sound, and will feature newly filmed, exclusive interviews with the filmmakers + Booklets featuring newly commissioned essays on each film. Extras: New filmed interviews with the filmmakers Booklet essays, Special Features: New HD restorations with restored picture and sound, New and improved English subtitles.

• Polish Cinema Classics Volume II | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £40.15   |  Saving you £-5.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A second volume of our acclaimed series. Second Run DVD proudly presents three celebrated works of Polish Cinema, now fully restored and released for the first time ever in the UK. Andrzej Wajda PROMISED LAND (Ziemia obiecana, 1974): Voted the best film in the history of Polish cinema in the monthly Polish magazine FILM, Wajda's Oscar-nominated epic Promised Land is a wry, incisive, shocking and elegantly realised Dickensian tale of greed, human cruelty, exploitation and bet...

• Illumination (Iluminacja) | DVD | (27/01/2014) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Unanimous winner of all three main prizes at the 1973 Locarno International Film Festival Zanussi's landmark film is a dazzling kaleidoscope of ideas and images. Illumination explores the life of a self-absorbed young physicist trying to understand his place in the universe. He thinks science will provide the answers but ultimately learns far more about himself through experiencing love betrayal loss and facing his own mortality. As much a philosophical essay as a narrative feature Illumination is a cinematic mosaic combining art and science intellect and emotion. Innovatively structured this unflinching examination of one man's life became an iconic cultural marker for a whole generation. The DVD is presented in a superb new director-approved HD transfer with restored picture and sound and features Marcin Latallo's acclaimed 1996 short film A Trace (Slad) about his father the lead actor in Illumination Stanislaw Latallo. Special Features: New Filmed Interview with Director Krzysztof Zanussi Short film A Trace (Slad) Booklet essay

• Leben Fur Leben - Maximilian Kolbe | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In July 1941 Jan a young Silesian manages to escape from the concentration camp at Auschwitz. In revenge for this one fugitive camp commandant Fritsch condemns ten prisoners to the starvation bunker. When one of them collapses under this sentence of death the Franciscan priest Maximillian Maria Kolbe sacrifices his own life instead. From now on Jan is not only fleeing the Gestapo but also his guilt for his involvement in Kolbe's death. For the rest of his life he will rema