Shot immediately after the Soviet invasion of 1968 Jakubisko's long-repressed feature focuses on the the three-way relationship that develops between two male friends and a female Jewish orphan as they travail a world ravaged by death and destruction a war-torn landscape of bombed-out churches and wrecked homes occupied it seems only by themselves and birds. Their triangular relationship recalls Truffaut's Jules et Jim but Jakubisko's heroes have no romantic ideals - they are all orphans products of an absurd world in which their parents killed each. With references... from Shakespeare to Rabelais key episodes in Slovak history and recalling the anarchic air of Věra Chytilová's Daisies Jakubisko's exhilarating experimental film is turn playful surreal and increasingly nightmarish. The second in a series of essential Slovak classic films to be released by Second Run DVD. Special Features: New HD master Booklet Essay [show more]
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Surreal Czechoslovakian drama directed by Juraj Jakubisko. The film follows three adult orphans, Martha (Magda Vásáryová), Andrej (Philippe Avron), and Yorick (Jirí Sýkora), who live together in an abandoned and dilapidated church building. Faced with a difficult existence in a war-torn country, the trio adopt a careless and childlike outlook on life to combat the despair they see all around them. However, living in such close proximity means that it isn't long before emotions start getting in the way of their happy life...
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