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Czechmate
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Epic, expansive, affectionate and deepIy passionate, CzechMate ln Search of Jiri Menzel is the definitive work on the CzechosIovak New Wave. This extraordinary documentary fiIm, a labour of Iove by archivist and filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has a depth and scale unparalIeIed in the study of the Czechoslovak cinema.
Jiri MenzeI s debut fiIm CloseIy Observed Trains (Ost e sledované vIaky, 1966) made a profound impression on young fiIm student Dungarpur. Years later, he invited Menzel to meet him in a Prague café - and so began a conversation and a friendship that has culminated in this epic, seven-hour film that not onIy explores the deceptiveIy whimsical comic fiIms of Jiri MenzeI, but aIl of the artists who strove to make films that whispered subversion and rebelIion often at the risk of their Iivelihood, or even their lives.
Filmed over a period of seven years, Dungarpur and his team interviewed filmmakers, actors, crew members, writers, historians and critics who had been touched by the New Wave - including V ra ChytiIová, Milo Forman, Vojt ch Jasný, lvan Passer, Ken Loach, Juraj Jakubisko, Jaromír ofr, Andrzej Wajda, Du an Hanák, tefan Uher, Jan N mec, and Miroslav Ond í ek among them.
CzechMate ln Search of Ji í Menzel reminds us of the genius, originality and bravery of the artists of the Czech Miracle , one of the most important and influential movements in the history of cinema.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION CONTENTS
CzechMate ln Search of Jiri MenzeI (2018) presented from a director-approved HD transfer Jiri Menzel short fiIms: Prefabricated Houses (Domy z paneI , 1960) Our Mr. Foerster Died (Um eI nám pan Foerster, 1962) lmage gallery Booklet featuring extracts from the diaries of filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Region free BIu-ray (A/B/C) 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio WorId premiere on Blu-ray MORE TBC |
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