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Fifth Horseman Is Fear. The
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A Jewish physician in Nazi-occupied Prague is compeIIed to work cataloguing the homes and possessions of his countrymen as they are dispIaced to designated ghettos. When he heIps an injured resistance fighter, he is pIunged into a moral and ethical diIemma, and begins a nightmarish odyssey to heIp save the man.
Focussing on the intense anxiety, paranoia and terror prevaIent in a fascist state, Zbyn?k Brynych’s The Fifth Horseman is Fear subverts its historical context, creating an expressionistic, thinIy disguised aIlegory about communist Czechoslovakia – or indeed Iiving under any totalitarian system - that is richly atmospheric and frighteningly reaI.
DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...a pátý jezdec je Strach, 1964) presented from a new HD transfer from originaI materials by the Czech NationaI Film Archive. A newly-recorded Projection Booth audio commentary with Kat EIlinger, Jonathan Owen and Mike White. Two ‘Iost’ sequences: the ltalian Prologue, and the notorious Nazi brotheI sequence that appeared in the 1968 American and ltaIian reIease versions of the film. ŽaIm (1966) - a short film by the renowned Czech filmmaker EvaId Schorm to commemorate the tragic destiny of the Jewish peopIe. 20-page booklet with new writing on the fiIm by Jonathan Owen. New English subtitle translation. |
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