A Case for a Rookie Hangman Blu-ray Detailed
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Posted May 14, 2019 04:51 PM by Webmaster
Second Run has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Pavel Jurácek's film A Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969). The release will be available for purchase on June 24.
Synopsis: A free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Pavel Juráček's film also channels Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka to create one of Czecholsovak cinema's most unique and deeply disturbing works.
A man becomes lost on a country road and finds himself in an alternative, nightmare world that mirrors (then) modern-day Czechoslovakia. Needless to say the film was not warmly recieved by the authorities, and like his earlier surrealist masterwork Josef Kilián (1963), was promptly 'banned forever'.
Juráček, who had earlier co-written Věra Chytilová's Daisies, Jindřich Polák's pioneering Ikarie XB 1 and Karel Zeman's A Jester's Tale, never made another film - but his legacy is one of the most profound, invigrating and important in all Czech cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: A free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Pavel Juráček's film also channels Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka to create one of Czecholsovak cinema's most unique and deeply disturbing works.
A man becomes lost on a country road and finds himself in an alternative, nightmare world that mirrors (then) modern-day Czechoslovakia. Needless to say the film was not warmly recieved by the authorities, and like his earlier surrealist masterwork Josef Kilián (1963), was promptly 'banned forever'.
Juráček, who had earlier co-written Věra Chytilová's Daisies, Jindřich Polák's pioneering Ikarie XB 1 and Karel Zeman's A Jester's Tale, never made another film - but his legacy is one of the most profound, invigrating and important in all Czech cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.
- Josef Kilián (Postava k podpírání, 1963): presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.
- Two additional short films written by Pavel Jurácek and directed by Jan Schmidt:
- Cars Without a Home (Auta bez domova, 1959)
- Black and White Sylva (Cernobílá Sylva, 1961)
- The Projection Booth podcast with Mike White Kat Ellinger, Kevin Heffernan and Peter Hames
- Original Trailer
- Booklet featuring new writing on the film by film historian Michael Brooke
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- REGION-FREE
