"Actor: Jiri Nemec"

• The Party And The Guests | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £11.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Distinguished by being ""banned forever"" in its native Czech Republic Jan Nemec's ""A Report on the Party"" is a great film from the flowering of the Czech cinema in the 1960s. It is a political thriller that satirizes unquestionable conformity. A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical but elegant and formal banquet outdoors. Nemec documents the process of self-deception and rationalization which lead to an acceptance of constrant; free will and freedom are seen as difficult to maintain and easily discarded. The affair is bizarre and ends when one of the guests (played by film director Evald Schorm) chooses not to remain and escapes. His compatriots agree that he must be recaptured and so the group arms themselves ready to hunt him down...

• The Ear | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £11.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (10.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Digitally remastered with full audio restoration The Ear is a story about paranoia and how it can turn the closest of people against each other. Banned by the Czech authorities in 1970 the film didn't resurface until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The director Karel Kachyna was posthumously nominated for the Cannes Golden Palm Award upon the film's revival.