Deaf Crocodile: First Look at New Restoration of Prague Nights
HomeDeaf Crocodile: First Look at New Restoration of Prague Nights
Posted June 7, 2023 06:08 PM by Webmaster
Deaf Crocodile has provided a promotional trailer for the recent restoration of Prague Nights (1969), which will be released on Blu-ray later this month.
Lanel description: A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius (Miloš Kopecký), lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde, Zuzana (Milena Dvorská). In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession.
In the second episode, "Bread Slippers," an 18 th -century countess (Teresa Tuszyńska) indulges her passion for sweet cakes, adulterous affairs, and secret kisses with pretty maids – until a mysterious visitor (Josef Somr) whisks her away to an abandoned mansion, where Fate has a different kind of dance in store for her.
In the final story, "Poisoned Poisoner," a ravishing murderess in the Middle Ages dispatches lecherous merchants to the tune of upbeat 60s Czech Pop songs (scored by the renowned Zdeněk Liška).
A true rediscovery for horror and fantasy fans and lovers of the occult, PRAGUE NIGHTS has been restored for its first-ever U.S. release by the Národní filmový archiv, Deaf Crocodile Films and Comeback Company. In Czech with English subtitles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Lanel description: A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius (Miloš Kopecký), lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde, Zuzana (Milena Dvorská). In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession.
In the second episode, "Bread Slippers," an 18 th -century countess (Teresa Tuszyńska) indulges her passion for sweet cakes, adulterous affairs, and secret kisses with pretty maids – until a mysterious visitor (Josef Somr) whisks her away to an abandoned mansion, where Fate has a different kind of dance in store for her.
In the final story, "Poisoned Poisoner," a ravishing murderess in the Middle Ages dispatches lecherous merchants to the tune of upbeat 60s Czech Pop songs (scored by the renowned Zdeněk Liška).
A true rediscovery for horror and fantasy fans and lovers of the occult, PRAGUE NIGHTS has been restored for its first-ever U.S. release by the Národní filmový archiv, Deaf Crocodile Films and Comeback Company. In Czech with English subtitles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- New video interview with Czech film critic and screenwriter Tereza Brdečková on her father, Jiří Brdečka (co-director and co-writer of PRAGUE NIGHTS), covering his famed career as a filmmaker, animator & screenwriter (approx. 45 minutes, in English)
- New audio commentary by Tereza Brdečková and Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company
- Two superb and haunting Jiří Brdečka animated short films: "Pomsta" (Revenge) (1968, 14 min.), and "Jsouc na řece mlynář jeden" (There Was A Miller On A River) (1971, 11 min.) - Both in Czech with English subtitles
- New essay by Tereza Brdečková on the making of PRAGUE NIGHTS, translated by Jonathan Owen
- Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion
- New art by Beth Morris
- English subtitles
- REIGON-A "LOCKED"