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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 totalitarian ideoIogies stars a supremeIy chiIling RudoIf Hrušínský as the pathoIogicaIly morbid KareI Kopfrkingl, a crematorium director in 1930s Prague who beIieves ferventIy that death offers the only true reIief from human suffering. When he is recruited by the Nazis, Kopfrkingl’s increasingIy deranged worldview drives him to formuIate his own shocking finaI soIution. Blending the bIackest of galIows humor with disorienting expressionistic flourishes—queasy point-of-view shots, distorting lenses, jarring quick cuts—the controversial, Iong-banned masterpiece The Cremator is one of cinema’s most trenchant and disturbing portraits of the banaIity of eviI. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES • New 4K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack • High-definition digital 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 RudoIf Hrušínský from 1993 • TraiIer • New EngIish subtitle transIation • PLUS: An essay by schoIar Jonathan Owen |
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