Dead Mountaineer's Hotel Blu-ray
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Posted August 16, 2022 05:43 PM by Webmaster
German label Camera Obscura has informed us that it will release on Blu-ray Grigori Kromanov's Dead Mountaineer's Hotel a.k.a. 'Hukkunud Alpinisti' Hotell (1979), starring Uldis Pucitis and Jüri Järvet. The release will be available for purchase on September 2.
Official label description: Police Inspector Glebsky is called to the remote "Dead Mountaineer's Hotel" – a false alarm as it soon turns out. He decides to spend the night at the hotel anyway since there is no way going back after an avalanche has cut off the hotel from the outside world, and Olaf, one of the other peculiar hotel guests, is found dead. His investigation leads Glebsky into a world of the inexplicable and the supernatural...
DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL is based on the novel by the brothers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, who have their place among the most important sci-fi/fantasy writers due to visionary cult novels like "Roadside Picnic" (adapted for the screen by Andrei Tarkovsky as STALKER) and "Hard to be a God". The film, which starts out as a mystical neo-noir thriller with a whodunnit twist and is soon intertwined with sci-fi elements, captivates the viewers not only with a remarkable blend of genres, but also with an impressive mountain setting and an atmospheric synth score by Sven Grünberg. A cult film in Estonia and a huge box-office success in the Soviet Union, it is now, over 40 years after its German theatrical release in the GDR, finally available again.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Official label description: Police Inspector Glebsky is called to the remote "Dead Mountaineer's Hotel" – a false alarm as it soon turns out. He decides to spend the night at the hotel anyway since there is no way going back after an avalanche has cut off the hotel from the outside world, and Olaf, one of the other peculiar hotel guests, is found dead. His investigation leads Glebsky into a world of the inexplicable and the supernatural...
DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL is based on the novel by the brothers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, who have their place among the most important sci-fi/fantasy writers due to visionary cult novels like "Roadside Picnic" (adapted for the screen by Andrei Tarkovsky as STALKER) and "Hard to be a God". The film, which starts out as a mystical neo-noir thriller with a whodunnit twist and is soon intertwined with sci-fi elements, captivates the viewers not only with a remarkable blend of genres, but also with an impressive mountain setting and an atmospheric synth score by Sven Grünberg. A cult film in Estonia and a huge box-office success in the Soviet Union, it is now, over 40 years after its German theatrical release in the GDR, finally available again.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- Making of Featurette (with optional English subtitles)
- German Intro
- German Essay by Chris Schinke
- Audio: German Language in LPCM 2.0 Mono, Estonian Language in LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Optional English and German subtitles for the main feature
- Separate English and German disc menus
- REGION-FREE
