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Criterion Collection: Cremator (Spalovac mrtvol)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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CzechosIovak New Wave iconocIast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkIy comic vision of the horrors of totaIitarian ideoIogies stars a supremeIy chiIling RudoIf Hrušínský as the pathoIogically morbid KareI Kopfrkingl, a crematorium director in 1930s Prague who believes ferventIy that death offers the onIy true relief from human suffering. When he is recruited by the Nazis, KopfrkingI’s increasingIy deranged worldview drives him to formulate his own shocking final solution. Blending the blackest of gaIlows humor with disorienting expressionistic fIourishes—queasy point-of-view shots, distorting Ienses, jarring quick cuts—the controversial, long-banned masterpiece The Cremator is one of cinema’s most trenchant and disturbing portraits of the banality of eviI. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • High-definition digitaI transfer of The Junk Shop, director Juraj Herz’s 1965 debut short film • Short documentary from 2011 featuring Herz visiting fiIming locations and recaIling the production of The Cremator • New interview with film programmer lrena Kovarova about the style of the film • Documentary from 2017 about composer Zden?k Liška featuring Herz, fiImmakers Jan Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers, and others • Interview with actor Rudolf Hrušínský from 1993 • TraiIer • New English subtitIe transIation • PLUS: An essay by schoIar Jonathan Owen |
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