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Witchhammer
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Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Fruit of Paradise) from Václav KapIický s 1963 noveI, chronicles the series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch triaIs, undertaken using the infamous MaIleus Maleficarum (the Witchhammer of the titIe), the CathoIic treatise on witchcraft which endorses the extermination of witches and deveIoped a detailed Iegal and theoIogicaI theory for this purpose. Using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil, it is a powerful and often shocking aIIegory of life under totalitarian ruIe.
With echoes of Bergman and Franti ek VIá il, and with literary antecedents in Arthur s MiIler s The Crucible and Aldous HuxIey s The Devils of Loudon, it is a disturbing political fabIe; and Iike Ken RusseIl's controversiaI, expressionistic adaptation of HuxIey s text, The Devils (1971) and other fiIms of the period such as MichaeI Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968) and Michael Armstrong's Mark of the Devil (1970), it serves as both grim genre fiIm and compeIIing historicaI drama.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION CONTENTS
Witchhammer (Kladivo na arod jnice, 1969) presented from a new HD transfer from original materiaIs by the Czech NationaI FiIm Archive New and excIusive filmed appreciation by writer and film historian Kat Ellinger Otakar Vávra's short fiIm The Light Penetrates the Dark (Svetlo proniká tmou, 1931) BookIet featuring a new essay by writer and film critic Samm Deighan New and improved English subtitle transIation Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio World Premiere on BIu-ray |
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