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• The Barnabas Kos Case | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £17.81   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Barnabas Kos, an untalented triangle-player in a state orchestra finds himself unfathomably promoted to conductor. Drunk with power, the once meek Kos now seeks to transform the ensemble to suit his own agenda and inflated vision...Peter Solan's absurdist, darkly funny satire of a corrupt system that rewards mediocrity and breeds petty dictatorship, openly criticised the practices of communist Czechoslovakia at the time. Its wry exposure of hypocrisy, sycophancy and the corrupting influence of power remains as fresh and relevant today as it did in 1964.

• Marketa Lazarova | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism.

• Witchhammer | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £10.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to give it to the midwife Groerová to heal her ailing cow. The young priest declares her a witch and convinces the Sumperk countess De Galle to summon the inquisitor Boblig from Edelstadt. This failed student of law sees the offer as a great opportunity. He uses torture and threats to force the women from the to testify to their meetings with the devil and learn by heart the lies he has made up for the inquisition tribunal. Boblig accuses the wealthy burghers of witchcraft as well, and so wants to seize their possessions.

• The Frantisek Vlacil Collection | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £43.75   |  Saving you £-18.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise Marketa Lazarova: A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism. The Valley of the Bees: Ondrej a young boy who loves bees and bats is introduced to his new mother a woman much younger than his father... Adelheid: In the aftermath of WWII a Czech airman returns home from his tour of duty with the British RAF intending to claim a German factory located in the Sudetenland along the Czech-German border. There he meets the beautiful Adelheid.