"Director: Franti ek Vlácil"

• 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.

• Valley of the Bees | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ondrej a young boy who loves bees and bats is introduced to his new mother a woman much younger than his father...

• The White Dove (Holubice) / Josef Kilián (Postava k podpírání) - Two-film Special Edition | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Second Run DVD present a unique double bill of two early works now regarded as two of the main precursors of the Czechoslovak New Wave. The White Dove is the bold and striking debut feature of master filmmaker František Vlácil (Marketa Lazarova; The Valley of the Bees). It is a sparse elegantly composed and stunningly beautiful tale of a wheelchair-bound boy and an artist who inadvertently intercept a homing pigeon and nurse it back to health. Josef Kilián is a dark and absurdly humorous biting allegory of life under the Communist regime. Author of the screenplays for Daisies Ikarie and a Jester's Tale yet Pavel Jurácek remains one of the Czech New Wave's most neglected artists. He made only four films and this surrealist masterpiece - inspired by two icons of Czech literature: the anti-militarist anti-authoritarian Jaroslav Hasek and the grotesque nightmares of Franz Kafka - was 'banned forever' after the Soviet invasion of 1969. Newly restored from original master materials these two remarkable films are presented for the first time ever in the UK. Special Features: Presented from Newly Restored Master Materials Booklet Essay

• 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.

• Adelheid | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adelheid