"Actor: Rudolf Hrusínský"

• The Czechoslovak New Wave - A Collection (3 Film Box Set) | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A 3-disc set comprising three integral features from the most creative period of Czechoslovak cinema. Despite being made under the gaze of Government censors ; these films achieved a miraculous marriage of content and form despite the most oppressive circumstances. Set includes: Diamonds of the Night (1964): Nemec's debut feature is one of the most thrilling and startlingly original works of cinema. Told almost without dialogue ; it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two t...

• Ninety Degrees In The Shade | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rare gem of a film that was a British/Czech co-production filmed in Prague before the Soviet clampdown of 1968 and nominated for the 1966 Golden Globe award for best English foreign language film. Vorell (James Booth) is a flighty married man with little concern for anyone other than himself. He has recently ended an affair with co-worker Alena (Anne Heywood) the manageress of a liquor store in communist Prague but when a government inspector Mr Kurka (Rudolf Hrusnsk) arrives to check their inventory it soon becomes apparent that Vorell is running a scam to sell liquor on the black market. Scared for his job and reputation Vorell leans on Alena reigniting their affair under the watchful and lecherous eyes of the emasculated Mr Kurka whose wife (Ann Todd) is an alcoholic unwilling to have sex with him. As the temperature of Pragues summer reaches ninety degrees in the shade the heat of lust and envy in the liquor store inevitably leads to violence and death