RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN DVD & BLU RAY RELEASES NEW RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN RELEASES MAY - NOVEMBER 2020
BREAK (15) 2019 RUSSIA SAHAKYAN, TIGRAN £12.99
Five friends take the trip of a lifetime on a cable car across
snow-capped peaks, however, when their cab becomes stuck their dream
trip quickly turns into a nightmare. CINEMA OF CONFLICT - FOUR FILMS BY KRZYSTOF KIESLOWSKI (15) POLAND BLU-RAY / LIMITED EDITION BOX SET £63.95 This
collection gathers his four earliest narrative feature films,
encapsulating the years 1976–1984. The films are - The Scar, Camera
Buff, Blind Chance and No End. THE SCAR Film about the benefits and disadvantages of a new chemical plant being built in an impoverished town. CAMERA BUFF A man buys cine camera to film his new baby. The camera becomes a consuming passion and it leads to unforeseen problems. BLIND CHANCE Young man is running to catch a train. The film them follows three imagined outcomes of this event. NO END Set during Marshall law in Poland, the film is part ghost story, political drama and a meditation on love.. THE CONQUEST OF SIBERIA (15) 2019 RUSSIA ZAYTSEV, IGOR £15.99 Historical
drama set during the reign of Peter I. An expedition is sent to
retrieve gold from Russian land, only for the expedition to be tangled
in a web of deceit from both Chinese and Russian sides. CRANES ARE FLYING - THE CRITERION COLLECTION (PG) 1957 RUSSIA KALATOZOV, MIKHAIL BLU RAY ONLY £22.99 Newly restored version of this landmark film of the post-Stalin Soviet Union. Young
Moscow couple Veronika and Boris are deeply in love, but are
separated when Boris volunteers to join the army during World War II.
While she waits for her lover to return, Veronika is raped by his
cousin, Fyodor, and later - having become resigned to the fact that
Boris will never return - agrees to marry him. KINGDOM OF SWORDS (15) 2018 UKRAINE KHYMYCH, TARAS £12.99 Adventure film set in the Middle Ages where the murder of a prince triggers a bloody war for the conquest of the throne. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (15) 1994 HUNGARY TARR,BELA BLU RAY ONLY £25.99 Epic
drama following life in a small post-communist Hungarian village where
nothing ever happens and nobody wants to be there. Adapted from the
novel by László Krasznahorkai, the saga is presented through chapters
looking at life from the viewpoint of each of the villagers, all of whom
want to leave as soon as they receive a much-anticipated cash payment
following the collapse of their plans for a collective farm SECRET WEAPON (15) 2018 RUSSIA STAT, KOSTYA £12.99
The retreating Red Army leaves behind their top secret weapon,
"Katyusha". A group of soldiers is sent to do everything possible not
to let "Katyusha" get into the hands of the Germans. SWORD OF GOD (15) 2018 POLAND KONOPKA, BARTOSZ £12.99 Set
in the Middle Ages, two knights venture to an isolated island to
convert the pagan villagers to Christianity. However, their methods
provoke the ire of the island's pagan priest and the village leader ,
leading to a violent confrontation. TENDERNESS (15) 1991 SLOVAKIA SULÍK, MARTIN BLU RAY 19.99 A rich and complex coming-of-age story, Tenderness focuses on a passionate and often cruel ménage à trois shaped by a country in the throes of political upheaval and social transformation. Cited as one of the finest ever Slovak feature debuts, the film marked the arrival of Šulik as one of international cinema's most vital talents. WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! (18) 2018 RUSSIA SOKOLOV, KIRILL BLU RAY £19.99 Shades of early Tarantino abound in this violent, stylish and riotously entertaining slice of family life, Moscow style. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (15) 1970 CZECHOSLOVAKIA JIRES, JAROMIL DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £20.99 Gothic fairy tale about Valerie, a young village girl on the cusp of adolescence, indulges in Gothic daydreams and fantasies.
NEW RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN RELEASES 2019
A BLONDE IN LOVE (15) 1965 CZECHOSLOVAKIA FORMAN, MILOS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Andula is a female factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia. At a dance Ashe has a fling with a pianist for from Prague. The pianist returns to Prague and the Andula decides to pay him a visit much to his surprise. COLD WAR (15) 2018 POLAND PAWLIKOWSKI, PAWEL DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Beautifully shot in black and white, this romantic epic is set in Post war Europe. Two people with different backgrounds and temperaments beginning an affair, but the Cold War splits them apart. One heads for the freedom of West and one opts to stay. An impossible love story in impossible times. DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT (12) 1964 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NEMEC, JAN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Jan Nemec, enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave, directs this
starkly surrealist drama telling the brutal story of two Jewish boys who
escape from a train transporting them from one Nazi death camp to
another. INVINCIBLE (18) 2018 RUSSIAN MAKSIMOV, KONSTANTIN £15.99 WWII movie where a small Soviet tank unit, deep behind enemy lines, battles the German army. KHRUSTALYOV, MY CAR! (18) 1998 RUSSIA GERMAN,ALEKSEI BLU-RAY £29.99 Set
in the 1950s, this satire is about military surgeon Yuri Georgievich
Klensky who is arrested in a Stalinist purge. However when Stalin falls
ill the surgeon is he rushed to Stalin's deathbed. NOVEMBER (15) 2017 ESTONIAN SARNET, RAINER DUAL FORMAT DVD AND BLU RAY £12.99 Inventive,
funny and magical film is set in snowy landscape of 19th-century
Estonia and is an adapted from the novel by Andrus Kivirähk. Evoking
influences as varied, as The Brothers Grimm, Bela Tarr and Jan
Vankmajer, young Lina and Hans are preparing to marry in their pagan
village where werewolves and spirits roam free. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN COLOUR/FASCISM IN COLOUR (E) £19.99
Double bill of colour documentaries exploring two of the most
significant political movements in the first half of the 20th century.
'Russian Revolution in Colour' endeavours to tell the story of the 1917
rebellion which landed power in the hands of Lenin and the Russian
Communist Party. 'Fascism in Colour' explores the rise to power of the
Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini and his relationship with Adolf
Hitler.
NEW RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN RELEASES 2018
ANDREI TARKOVSKY COLLECTION (15) RUSSIA (5021866837307) DVD - £62.99 BLU RAY - £71.99 This
features - Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, The
Sacrifice and Ivan's Childhood along with many special features and a
177-page book. BANISHMENT (PG) 2007 RUSSIA ZVYAGINTSEVÙ, ANDREY BLU RAY ONLY£19.99 Powerful story of a family who relocate from a bustling city to the tranquil surrounding of the family home in the country. BLACK PETER (12) 1964 CZECHOSLOVAKIA FORMAN, MILOS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Forman’s
debut feature is a wry and provocative comedy about 17-year-old Petr,
who gets a job as a security guard at a busy local shop. However he
struggles with the job and his boss, in this portrait of everyday life
under totalitarianism. CREMATOR (15) CZECH REPUBLIC 1968 HERZ, JURAJ £12.99 Film has been described as surrealist-inspired horror. EARTHQUAKE (15) 2016 ARMENIA ANDREASYAN, SARIK £15.99 Set during the 1988 Spitek earthquake 50-year-old Russian Konstantin and 28-year-old Armenian Robert work together to rescue the survivors. HATRED (18) 2017 POLAND SMARZOWSKI, WOJCIECH £15.99 Zosia a young Polish girl is forced to leave her Ukrainian lover Petro and marry a rich widower, Skiba. However when WWII breaks out Skiba joins the Polish army, leaving Zosia to fend for herself as tensions rises between local Jews, Poles and Ukrainians, resulting in violent clashes. INCARNATION (15) 2016 SERBIA KOVACEVIC, FILIP £12.99 Low-budget Serbian action thriller. The film follows an amnesiac man (Stojan Djordjevic) who finds himself stuck in a deadly time loop in which he wakes up on the same bench in an unknown city and is pursued by masked assassins who want him dead. INVENTION FOR DESTRUCTION (12) 1958 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ZEMAN , KAREL DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 (BOTH FORMATS REGION FREE) One of the most commercially successful Czech films. The film is a combination of live-action and animation and is a heartfelt homage to Jules Verne's tales of science and adventure. JUPITER'S MOON (15) 2017 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ , KORNÉL £12.99 Sci-fi
film about a young Syrian refugee Aryan Dashni who is shot while
illegally trying to cross into Hungary. In a refugee camp doctor Gabor
Stern nurses Aryan back to health. However on recover Aryan discovers
he possesses the power to levitate and fly, which Dr Stern decides to
exploit. But all Aryan wants is to be reunited with his father. KILLS ON WHEELS (15) 2016 HUNGARY TILL, ATTILA DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99 Inventive,
action-packed coming-of-age film about friendship, loyalty and revenge
set in a care home. Disabled and inseparable friends, Zoli and Barba,
need money to pay for medical care, which bring them into contact with
the mysterious ex-con Rupasovm, who offers them a chance to make some
extra money by helping him in his work. LOVELESS (15) 2017 RUSSIA ZVYAGINTSEV, ANDREY DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £17.99 Thriller in which unhappy couple, Boris and Zhenya, are living in their tiny flat with their 12-year-old son Alyosha, as finalise their impending divorce. When Alyosha runs away and the police are unwilling to search for him, his parents set off to search for him. MIRACULOUS VIRGIN (12) 1967 CZECHOSLOVAKIA UHER, STEFAN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 (REGION FREE) This surreal odyssey is based on a 1944 novella by Dominik Tatarka, but is now set in the 1960s. Mysterious Anabella inspires a group of young artists and challenges the material world. Includes the short - Marked by Darkness. NINA(15) 2018 POLAND CHAJDAS, OLGA £15.99 After discovering that Nina is unable to conceive, she and her husband Wojtek set out to find a surrogate. When Wojtek happens to meet Magda and notices that she has green eyes, a trait they desire for their own offspring, he takes her to meet Nina. What ensues is a complicated web of deceit as Nina and Magda form an unexpected bond that may threaten the future of her marriage with Wojtek. THE ODDSOCKEATERS (PG) 2016 CZECH REPUBLIC MIKLÍNOVÁ, GALINA £10.99 Animated adventure about a small creatures (the Oddsockeaters) who eats one sock from each pair of socks. RED (15) 206 RUSSIA BASAEV,, A/DE VITAL W £9.99 World War Two drama about a Russian pilot who heads to the front with his dog. THE RETURN (12) 2003 RUSSIA ZVYAGINTSEV, ANDREY DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £17.99 Two brothers are taken on a fishing trip by their mysterious father who has returned after 12 years away and the boys struggle to come to terms with their father's presence and his cruel, mysterious ways. SILENCE AND CRY (12) 1968 HUNGARY JANCSÓ, MIKLÓS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Final part of an epic unofficial trilogy, following The Round-Up and The Red and the White, Silence and Cry reveals the terrible impact of tyrannical power, politics and history. STRANGLED (18) 2016 HUNGARY SOPSITS, ÁRPÁD DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99 Thriller
set in 1960s as group of detectives race against the clock to catch a
killer who has already claimed the lives of several young women, before
an innocent man is wrongly convicted for the crimes. ZOOLOGY (12A) 2016 RUSSIAN TVERDOVSKIJ, IVAN I. DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY £17.99 Lonely,
55-year-old Natasha, is a zoo worker still living at home with her
mother. One day she wakes up having grown a tail, but decides to embrace
her transformation and begins to enjoying her new lease of life, until a
rumour spreads in the neighbourhood that Natasha has been marked by
the devil.
 
RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN BACK LIST
RUSSIAN DVDS
4 (CHETYRE) (15) RUSSIA 2005 KHRJANOVSKY, ILYA £19.99
Two men and a woman meet in a Moscow bar and weave extravagant lies about their lives.
9TH COMPANY (15) POLAND 2005 BONDARCHUK, FYODOR IN RUSSIAN £19.99
Based on real life events the film recounts a year in the shared lives
of a group of young Soviet soldiers recruited to serve in Afghanistan.
100 DAYS BEFORE THE COMMAND (15) 1990 RUSSIA ERKENOV, HUSSEIN £14.99
Follows two raw recuits in their 100 days training before they become soldiers.
1612 (15)
2007 RUSSIA KHOTINENKO, VLADIMIR £12.99
Historical action-adventure.
ALAN YENTOB:
THE TROUBLE WITH TOLSTOY (E) 2011 £19.99
Alan Yentob presents this two-part BBC documentary tracing the
life and work of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and examining his
artistic and political influence on his mother country. The episodes are
'At War With Himself' and 'In Search of Happiness'
ALEXANDER NEVSKY (PG) 1938 B/W RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
Sergei Eisenstein uses all his cinematic magic to tell this epic tale of Prince Nevsky.
ALEXANDRA (PG) 2007 RUSSIA SOKUROV, ALEXANDER £19.99
The film explores the enclosed all-male environment of a Russian troops in war torn Chechnya.
ALEXANDER NEVSKY (PG) 1938 RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
Film about Alexander Nevsky, a legendary hero, who led his people against the Teutonic Knights during the early thirteenth century
ANDREI RUBLEV (15) 1966 RUSSIA TARKOVSKY, ANDREI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Widely regarded as Andrei Tarkovsky’s finest film, which charts the life of the famous icon painter Rublev.
ANDREI
TARKOVSKY COLLECTION (15) RUSSIA £59.99
Complete collection of directed works by the acclaimed Russian
film maker - Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Sacrifice, Nostalgia,
Solaris and The Mirror. ANDREI TARKOVSKY DELUXE COLLECTION (15) BLU RAY ONLY £109 This Blu Ray only edition features - Andrei Rublev, Solaris,Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, The Sacrifice and Ivan's Childhood along with many special features and a 177-page book.
ANDREI TARKOVSKY COMPANION (U) 19683-2000 RUSSIA £24.99
Three films about the work of the great Russian director. Features ‘One day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch’ by Chris Marker , ‘Moscow Elegy’ by Alexander Sokurov and ‘Tempo di Viaggio’ by Andrei Tarkovsky & Tonino Guerra..
ARSENAL (PG) 1929 RUSSIA DOVZHENKO, ALEKSANDR £12.99
Silent war drama about a soldier who makes his way back home to Kiev. Here he and his fellow Bolshevik soldiers revolt against the authorities and end up at a munitions base, preparing to fight for their city against the approaching nationalist White Army.
AS IF I AM NOT THERE (18) WILSON, JUANITA £14.99
Juanita Wilson directs this stark portrayal of a young woman's survival of the atrocities of the 1990s Bosnian War. Natasha Petrovic.
ASHIK KERIB (PG) 1988 RUSSIA PARADJANOV, SERGEI £19.99
Visually stunning drama based on a Russian fable concerning the minstrel Ashik Kerib.
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (PG) 1959 RUSSIA CHUKHRAI, GRIGORI £19.99
Award winning and moving story set in World War Two.
BANISHMENT (PG) 2007 RUSSIA ZVYAGINTSEVÙ, ANDREY BLU RAY ONLY£19.99 Powerful story of a family who relocate from a bustling city to the tranquil surrounding of the family home in the country. BATTLE FOR MOSCOW (12) 2016 RUSSIA DRUZHININ,K/SHALOPA, A £15.99 Set
in 1941 a group of Soviet soldiers as they put their lives on the line
to protect the city of Moscow from advancing Nazi forces. BATTLE FOR SEVASTOPOL (15) 2015 RUSSIA MOKRITSKIY, SERGEY £15.99 With the outbreak of war a promising student Lyudmila enlists and becomes a sniper. After she is seriously injured in battle, Lyudmila is sent to the United States on a publicity visit where she meets Eleanor Roosevelt and the two become close.
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN/DRIFTERS (PG) 1925/29 RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI DUAL FORMAT DVD AND BLU RAY £19.99
A landmark film in technical achievement and emotionally stirring recreation of history. Also included British documentary 'Drifters' (1929), which was influenced by and originally screened alongside 'Battleship Potemkin'
BLACK
SHEEP (15) 2010 RUSSIA CHEKALOV, SERGEY £12.99
Russian WWII drama about a group of escaped prisoners' fight for
survival. BLU RAY - £17.99BREAK (15) 2019 RUSSIA SAHAKYAN, TIGRAN £12.99 Five friends take the trip of a lifetime on a cable car across snow-capped peaks, however, when their cab becomes stuck their dream trip quickly turns into a nightmare.
BROTHER (18) 2002 RUSSIA BALABANOV, ALEKSEI £19.99
Chechen veteran moves to St Petersburg and becomes a mafia hitman.
BROTHER TWO (18) 2003 RUSSIA BALABANOV, ALEKSEI £19.99
Non-stop ride to the rotten heart of the black economy of Russia and the USA.
BURNT BY THE SUN (15) 1994 RUSSIA MIKHALKOV, NIKITA £15.99
Written, directed and starring Russia’s leading film-maker, Nikita Mikhalkov. BURNT BY THE SUN 2 (15) 2011 RUSSIAN MIKHALKOV, NIKITA £19.99
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars in this two-part Russian war sequel
to 'Burnt By the Sun' (1994). Told in two films, 'Exodus' (2010) and
'Citadel' (2011), and set during World War II, the story follows General
Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Mikhalkov).
CHEKHOV COMEDY SHORTS (PG) 2010 £12.99
Four one-act comic plays based on the works of Anton Chekhov. Screened by Sky Arts to coincide with the 150th
anniversary of Chekhov's birth, the plays feature the talent of comic actors including Steve Coogan, Julia Davis, Julian Barratt, Sheridan Smith, Mathew Horne, Philip Jackson, Mackenzie Crook and Johnny Vegas. Plays are: 'The Proposal', 'The Dangers of Tobacco', 'The Bear' and 'A Reluctant Tragic Hero'CITADEL (15) 2011 RUSSIAN MIKHALKOV, NIKITA £19.99
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars in the final part of his Russian war trilogy.
COME AND SEE (15) 1985 RUSSIA KLIMOV, ELEM £19.99
A boy is unwillingly thrust into the atrocities of war in WWII.
COMMISSAR (PG) 1967 RUSSIA ASKOLDOV, ALEKSANDR £19.99
Pregnant Red Army cavalry commissar stays with a poor Jewish family to give birth.
THE CONCERT (15) 2009 RUSSIA MIHAILEANU, RADU £19.99
Comedy drama about a conductor of the prestigious Bolshoi
Orchestra who was sacked from the post 30 years previously for hiring
Jewish musicians, and has worked in the menial role of janitor in the
Bolshoi Theatre ever since. When he happens upon an invitation from
Paris for the Bolshoi Orchestra to play there, he hijacks the gig and
assembles his own motley team of musicians for a whirlwind three-day
trip that they will never forget.CONFESSION (E) 1998 RUSSIA SOKUROV, ALEXANDE £29.99
In a long night time journey punctuated by ghostly apparitions, Alexander Sokurov paints a moving human epic revealing the outlines of Russia’s historical destiny.
CRANES ARE FLYING (PG) 1957 RUSSIA KALATOZOV, MIKHAIL £19.99
Award winning film about two young lovers forced apart by World War Two.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (15) UK 2002 GOLAN, MENAHEM IN ENGLISH £5.99
John Hurt stars in this film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel.
CUCKOO (12) 2002 RUSSIA ROGOZHKIN, ALEXANDER £19.99
A dramatic anti-war romantic comedy set on the northern border between Russia and Finland during World War II DARK PLANET (15) 2009 RUSSIA FEDOR BONDARCHUK £15.99 In 2157 a spaceship crash-lands on an unknown planet which seems similar to Earth some 100 years previous and is being torn apart by social problems and wars.
DAY WATCH (15) 2006 RUSSIA BEKMAMBETOV, TIMUR £19.99
Sequel to the fantasy-thriller Night Watch.
DESTINY OF A MAN (PG) RUSSIA 1959 BONDARCHUK, SERGEI £19.99
Moving account of an ordinary Soviet citizen during the Nazi invasion in WWII.
DERSU UZALA (U) 1975.RUSSIA KUROSAWA, AKIRA £22.99
Filmed on the Pacific seaboard of the former USSR, the film explores the relationship between an ageing hunter and a soldier-explorer.
DESTINY OF A MAN (PG) RUSSIA 1959 BONDARCHUK, SERGEI £19.99
Moving account of an ordinary Soviet citizen during the Nazi invasion in WWII.
DON QUIXOTE (PG) 1957 RUSSIA KOZINTSEV, GRIGORI £9.99
Russian adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes classic .
EARTH (PG) 1930 RUSSIA DOVZHENKO, ALEXANDER £12.99
One of the last silent classics commissioned to promote the collectivisation of the Soviet rural economy, but its story of rural prosperity through technical progress takes a back seat to the incredible images that fill the screen in this great film poem, which is as much a paean to a pagan past as a depiction of the march of progress
EISENSTEIN
COLLECTION VOLUME 1 (15) RUSSIA 1925-7 £59.99
Features
Strike, Battleship Potemkin and October.
EISENSTEIN COLLECTION:
VOLUME 2 (PG) RUSSIA 1937-58 EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £59.99
A
second collection of films by Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
'Bezhin Meadow' (1937) , . 'Alexander Nevsky' (1938), 'Ivan the
Terrible Part I' (1944) and 'Ivan the Terrible Part II: The Boyars' Plot
(1958).EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (18) 2015 GREENAWAY, PETER IN ENGLISH DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Set in Mexico in 1931 during the filming of 'Que Viva Mexico!, the drama looks at Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein relationship with young actor Jorge Palomino y Cañedo.
END OF ST PETERSBURG (PG) 1927 RUSSIA B/W SILENT PUDOVKIN, VSEVOLOD £19.99
Film commissioned by the Soviet government puts a human face on the revolution and contains some extraordinary montages.
EXODUS (15)
2010 RUSSIA MIKHALKOV, NIKITA £12.99
War drama set in Russia in 1941 as the Nazis begin their
attempted invasion into a country already reeling from the violence of
Stalin's purges. A sequel to director and star Nikita Mikhalkov's
critically-acclaimed 1994 film 'Burnt By the Sun', the movie picks up
the story of lead character General Kotov (Mikhalkov) in the gulag to
which Stalin has condemned him. With his life spared by the Nazi
invasion, Kotov finds himself fighting in the front lines amongst his
brave but disorganised countrymen.
THE FALL OF THE ROMANOFF DYNASTY (E) RUSSIA 1927 SHUB, ESFIR £19.99
Documentary about the events leading up to the Russian Revolution.
FATHER AND SON (U) 2003 RUSSIA SOKUROV, ALEXANDER £19.99
A tale of the devoted loving bond between a father and his teenage son. GAGARIN: FIRST IN SPACE (12) 2013 RUSSIA PARKHOMENKO, PAVEL £12.99 Historical drama retelling the story of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human to journey into outer space in 1961. GUARDIANS (12) 2017 RUSSIA ANDREASYAN, SARIK £9.99 Adventure film set during the Cold War, a group of superheroes known as the Patriots are put together to change the DNA of selected people to give them the powers to defend themselves against supernatural threats.
This renowned Russian version of the play ranks among the finest adaptations of Shakespeare on filmHARD TO BE A GOD (15) 2013 RUSSIA GERMAN, ALEKSEY DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 A group of scientists travel to another planet similar to Earth but its civilisation hasn't progressed beyond their version of medieval feudalism. HARDCORE HENRY (18) 2015 RUSSIA NAISHULLER, ILYA £19.99 Sci-fi thriller set in Moscow and filmed through the eyes of Henry, a man who is saved from death but left with no memories of his past.
Set in a small psychiatric hospital near the Chechen. The staff leave to find safety the inmates look after each other and negotiate with the invaders and defenders.
HOW I ENDED
THIS SUMMER (12) 2010 RUSSIA POPOGREBSKY ALEKSEI £15.99
The film charts the increasingly strained relationship between
two men working at the tiny, remote station research station
IN THE FOG (12) 2012 RUSSIA LOZNITSA, SERGEI DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £19.99
Russian wartime drama following a suspected Nazi collaborator's experience on the western frontier of the USSR.THE ICEBREAKER (15) 2016 RUSSIA KHOMERIKI, NIKOLAY £17.99 Action
adventure based on true events about the icebreaker Mikhail Gromov
which becomes trapped in the thick ice of the Antarctic Ocean. INVINCIBLE (18) 2018 RUSSIAN MAKSIMOV, KONSTANTIN £15.99 WWII movie where a small Soviet tank unit, deep behind enemy lines, battles the German army.
16th-century Ukrainian Cossack leader Taras Bulba sends his son Andriy to study in Poland in order to teach him the ways of the oppressor, only to hear to his consternation that the boy has fallen in love with a Polish noblewoman.
IRON LORD (15) 2010 RUSSIA KOROBKIN, DMITRI £12.99
Russian war epic set at the turn of the eleventh century as Prince Yaroslav attempts to bring order to a land of thieving and lawlessness.
THE ITALIAN (12) 2005 RUSSIA KRAVCHUK, ANDREI £19.99
Vanya, an abandoned 6 year-old in a rundown orphanage enlists the help of older children to find the possible whereabouts of his mother. He escapes and travels across the country, pursued by the authorities. IVAN THE TERRIBLE: PARTS 1 AND 2 (PG) 1946
RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
Eisenstein's epic production tells the story of one of Russia's
greatest and most ruthless leaders.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE PART 1 (PG) 1944 RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
Eisenstein’s large scale interpretation of Russian history.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE PART 2 (PG) 1945 RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
Also know as ‘The Boyar Plot’.
IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (PG) 1962 RUSSIA TARKOVSKY, ANDREI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Story of a twelve year old boy seeking to revenge the murder of his family by the Nazis in World War Two
JACK FROST (PG) 1964 RUSSIA ROU,
ALEKSANDR £12.99
Russian adaptation of the popular fairy tale. Nastenka is
treated like a slave by her evil stepmother, who sends her out into the
forest to freeze to death. Before he can find Nastenka, her lover Ivan
is turned into a bear by an evil warlock. KHRUSTALYOV, MY CAR! (18) 1998 RUSSIA GERMAN,ALEKSEI BLU-RAY £29.99 Set
in the 1950s, this satire is about military surgeon Yuri Georgievich
Klensky who is arrested in a Stalinist purge. However when Stalin falls
ill the surgeon is he rushed to Stalin's deathbed.
KING LEAR (PG) 1971 RUSSIA KOZINTSEV, GRIGORI £12.99
Post-revolutionary Russian director Grigori Kozintzev provides a social context to Shakespeare's regal family drama, associating Lear's irresponsibility to his family with the neglect of his fellow countrymen.
KOKTEBEL (12) 2003 RUSSIA POPOGREBSKY A/KHLEBNIKOV B £19.99
Father and son set off with no money or means of transport, they drift through Russia’s
expansive and mesmerizing landscape at the mercy of chance.
LAST RESORT (15) 2000 UK IN ENGLISH PAWLIKOWSKI,PAWEL £19.99
Film about a Russian mother and son who claim political aylum and her detention in a refugee centre. LEVIATHAN (15) 2014 RUSSIA ZVYAGINTSEV, ANDREY DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Set in a small town on the coast of the Barents Sea, Leviathan is the tragic tale of one man’s struggle against a corrupt system of power.
LETTER TO ANNA (E) 2008 RUSSIA BERGKRAUT, ERIC £12.99
Documentary telling the story of Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead by an unknown killer outside her homeTHE
LIGHTHOUSE (12) 2006 RUSSIA SAAKYAN, MARIYA £12.99
A young woman travels to her hometown in the war torn Caucuses
when she is caught up in the brutal conditions of war. LOVELESS (15) 2017 RUSSIA ZVYAGINTSEV, ANDREY DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £17.99 Thriller in which unhappy couple, Boris and Zhenya, are living in their tiny flat with their 12-year-old son Alyosha, as finalise their impending divorce. When Alyosha runs away and the police are unwilling to search for him, his parents set off to search for him.
MAD LOVE (PG) RUSSIA 1931-1916 BAUER, EVGENII £19.99
Three silent films from a pioneer of Russian cinema.
THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD(15) RUSSIA 2014 ANTHONY, PETER £17.99 Documentary about the life of Stanislav Petrov, who reported a potential missile attack on the USSR as a false alarm and is credited with saving the world from a nuclear war. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (E) RUSSIA 1929 B/W DZIGA VERTOV DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 The film catalogues a day in the life of a modern Soviet city using many cinematic effects and accompanied by a new, specially-written score by composer Michael Nyman. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA AND OTHER WORKS (E) RUSSIA 1929 B/W DZIGA VERTOV BLU RAY ONLY - 4 DISCS - £19.99 The
film catalogues a day in the life of a modern Soviet city using many
cinematic effects. Four disc set also includes Kino Eye (1924), Kino
Pravada No. 21 (1925), Enthusiasm and (1931) and Three Songs About
Lenin (1934). MIRROR (U) 1974 RUSSIA TARKOVSKY, ANDREI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 This dazzlingly beautiful autobiographical film intertwines real life, memories of childhood and dreams as well as reflections on the Russian people and their history.
MOTHER AND SON (U) 1997 RUSSIA SOKUROV, ALEXANDER £19.99
Son tends his dying mother.NAPOLEON'S WAR 1812 (15) 2012 RUSSIA FESENKO,OLEG £12.99
Set leading up to the Battle Of Borodino in 1812, when the secret Russian's plans were stolen by anagent of Napoleon.
NEWSMAKERS (18) RUSSIA 2009 BANKE, ANDERS DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Following a shoot-out with a powerful armed gang, the Moscow police force attempts to restore its damaged reputation by re-editing the footage of their clash with the criminals and broadcasting it to the entire nation in theform of a live reality show.
NIGHT WATCH (15) 2004 RUSSIA BEKMAMBETOV, TIMUR £19.99
Fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow, where good and evil do battle.NOSTALGIA (15) 1983 ITALY TARKOVSKY, AMDREI IN ITALIAN DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 At a spa in the Tuscan Hills, a Russian poet and musicologist meets a mysterious man who is convinced that the end of the world is nigh.
OCTOBER (PG) 1955 EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
Epic masterpiece about the events of October 1917.
OF FREAKS AND MEN (18) 1998 BALABANOV, ALEKSEI £19.99
The film lays bare a preoccupation with sexuality welling beneath the austere trappings of the Russian bourgeoisie.
PALMS (PG) RUSSIA 1993 ARISTAKISYAN, ARTUR £19.99
Between 1986 and 1990, Arthur Aristakisian lived among the tramps and beggars of Kishinov, the Moldavian capital, studying them and empathising with their plight. This documentary follows a series of case studies
PARADOX SOLDIERS (15) 2010 RUSSIA OLEG POGODIN, O/VORONKOV, D £15.99
Russian sci-fi war drama sequel. During a recreation of one of World War II's bloodiest battles, a group of young men suddenly find themselves transported back in time to the very real horrors of the Russian front.
PUSSY RIOT-A PUNK PRAYER (18) 2013 LERNER, M/POZDOROVKIN, M £12.99
Documentary about Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot.
QUIET FLOWS THE DON (15) 2006 RUSSIA BONDARCHUK, SERGEI £12.99
Epic adaptation of Mikhail Sholokov's Nobel Prize-winning novel. Rupert Everett stars as the Cossack, Grigory Melekhov, and the film follows his colourful life from just before the First World War, through the Bolshevik Revolution and on to the Russian Civil War.
REBELLION:
THE LITVINENKO CASE (E) 2007 RUSSIA NEKRASOV, ANDREI £15.99
Documentary looking at the events leading up the
death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian ex-spy who passed away under
suspicious circumstances in 2006. RED (15) 206 RUSSIA BASAEV,, A/DE VITAL W £9.99 World War Two drama about a Russian pilot who heads to the front with his dog. RED ARMY (15) 2014 RUSSIA POLSKY, GABE £15.99 Documentary which focuses on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team. During the Cold War, the national team of the Soviet Union dominated the sport of ice hockey.
THE RETURN (12) 2003 RUSSIA ZVYAGINTSEV, ANDREY DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £17.99 Two brothers are taken on a fishing trip by their mysterious father who has returned after 12 years away and the boys struggle to come to terms with their father's presence and his cruel, mysterious ways.
A ROOM AND A HALF (12) 2009 RUSSIA ANDREY KHRZHANOVSKIY £15.99
Semi-fictionalised account of the childhood and early life of Russian poet and Nobel Laureate in Literature, Joseph Brodsky
RUSSIAN ARK (U) 2002 RUSSIA SOKUROV, ALEXANDER £19.99
Amazing journey through 300 years of Russian history.
RUSSIA IN REVOLT - BOX SET (PG) RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £49.99
CONTAINS - Strike - Battleship Potemkin - October 1917.
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN COLOUR/FASCISM IN COLOUR (E) £19.99
Double bill of colour documentaries exploring two of the most
significant political movements in the first half of the 20th century.
'Russian Revolution in Colour' endeavours to tell the story of the 1917
rebellion which landed power in the hands of Lenin and the Russian
Communist Party. 'Fascism in Colour' explores the rise to power of the
Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini and his relationship with Adolf
Hitler.
Collection of documentaries on the three most influential
figures in the Russian Communist Party that ruled over the Soviet Union
for much of the 20th century. Valdimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were the
men who helped steer the Communists to power following the overthrow of
Tsar Nicholas II in 1917. However, a difference in opinions saw Trotsky
exiled to Mexico, where he was murdered in 1940 on the command of Joseph
Stalin, the successor to Lenin as Communist Party ruler and the man
responsible for the Great Purge that resulted in the deaths of millions.THE SACRIFICE (12) 1986 SWEDEN TARKOVSKY, AMDREI IN SWEDISH £15.99
An isolated Swedish island Alexander (Erland Josephson), his wife,
their children, her lover and various eccentric friends gather around a
radio when nuclear war is announced. Alexander attempts to strike a deal
with God and is willing to sacrifice everything, including his
six-year-old son, in order to avert the war and mankind's annihilation. SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (PG) 1981 RUSSIA IGOR MASLENNIKOV £13.99
Russian adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel. SHOPPING TOUR (15) 2012 RUSSIA BRASHINSKIY, MIKHAIL £12.99 Satirical Russian horror about group of Russian tourists go on a coach trip to Finland on the one day a year when local Finns are obliged to feast on any foreign visitors. SINCE OTAR LEFT (15) BELGIUM 2003 BERTUCELLI, JULIE IN FRENCH AND RUSSIAN £19.99
A Russian mother and her daughter receives regular letters sent from the family’s adored son, Otar, who lives in Paris. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.SOLARIS (PG) 1972 RUSSIA TARKOVSKY, ANDREI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Science fiction film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem novel set on a space station orbiting the ocean-covered planet Solaris. The planet seems bring to life physical manifestation of painful memories of one of the crew. The film won the Jury prize at Cannes.
SPIRITUAL VOICES(E) 1982 RUSSIA SOKUROV, ALEXANDER £29.99
Documentary presents an insight into the emotions of a group of Russian soldiers on
duty at an outpost located between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
THE SOVIET INFLUENCE: FROM TURKSIB TO NIGHTMAIL (E) 1929 £19.99
This film analyses the importance of early Russian films in shaping British documentaries by comparing and contrasting Viktor Turin's 1929 'Turksib' with subsequent British documentaries, including 'Night Mail' 1936, and the work of such filmmakers as John Grierson, Paul Rotha, Harry Watt and Basil Wright.
THE SOVIET INFLUENCE VOLUME 2: POTEMKIN / DRIFTERS (PG) £19.99
The
second in the BFI's series exploring the influence of Soviet classics
on British filmmakers of the 1930s. This edition presents one of the
classics of world cinema, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 Battleship Potemkin,
in High Definition for the first time in the UK, and accompanies it
with the world premiere High Definition release of John Griersons
ground-breaking 1929 documentary Drifters.SOVIET PROPAGANDA-CAPITALIST SHARKS AND COMMUNIST DREAMS(E) £17.99
Collection of animated propaganda films from the Soviet archives.
STALKER (PG) 1979 RUSSIA TARKOVSKY, ANDREI DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Demanding, hallucinogenic Sci-fi film, boldly photographed and relentless in it’s depiction of a world gone mystically awry.
STAR (15) 2002 RUSSIA LEBEDEV , NIKOLAI £19.99
The film recounts the bravery of a scout unit patrol operating behind German lines
during the Second World War.
STALIN: MAN OF STEEL (E) £17.99
Documentary on the controversial Russian leader who was responsible for the infamous Great Purge in which many dissidents were summarily executed or put in prison camps for their beliefs. STALINGRAD (15) 2013 RUSSIA BONDARCHUK, FEDOR DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £22.99 Russian action movie set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War Two STAND (15) 2014 RUSSIA KURGANOV, ANDREY £15.99 After witnessing a brutal homophobic attack that leaves the victim critically ill in hospital, partners Anton (Renat Shuteev) and Vlad (Kurganov) set out to find those responsible.
A film of great visual beauty, dynamic montage, humour and compassion.
STRIKE (15) 1924 RUSSIA B/W SILENT EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
Eisenstein’s first feature which also remains one of his most watch able. THE STUDENT (15) 2016 RUSSIA SEREBRENNIKOV, KIRILL £15.99 Troubled teenager and devout Christian convinces his conservative school principal to included creationism in biology lessons to the chagrin of the atheist teacher Elena.
SUN (15) 2004 RUSSIA SOKUROV, ALEXANDER IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH £19.99
The film follow he Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s defeat in World War II and
creates an intimate portrait of a human being deeply affected by the tragedy that besets his country.
THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR MOTHERLAND (15) RUSSIA 1975 BONDARCHUK, SERGEI £19.99
June 1942, The film concentrates on the remnants of a shatteredSoviet regiment and its individual soldiers’ thoughts and fears in the faceof impending annihilation.
THREE SISTERS (U) UK 1970 OLIVIER, LAURENCE IN ENGLISH £12.99
Film of the Anton Chekhov play.
TO GET TO HEAVEN FIRST YOU HAVE TO DIE (15) RUSSIA 2006 USMONOV, DJAMSHED £19.99
The film follows Kamal a man who sets out on the road of self discovery, however, his journey takes a decidedly dark turn after a chance encounter on a bus.TWO WOMEN (U) 2014 RUSSIAN GLAGOLEVA, VERA £15.99 Adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's play. Rich married Natalya laments losing her allure as middle age approaches and finds herself increasingly jealous of her adopted daughter Vera youthful beauty. When 21-year-old student Aleksei enters the household, Natalya and Vera compete for his affection. UNCLE VANYA (E) 1962 UK BURGE, STUART IN ENGLISH £19.99
Chichester Festival Theatre production with Laurence Olivier and Michael Redgrave. VIKING (15) 2016 RUSSIA KRAVCHUK, ANDREI £15.99 Set in the 10th century, young Viking prince Vladimir is exiled from the kingdom of Kievan Rus following the death of his father. In exile he assembles an army to overthrowing the tyrannical Yaropolk and returning power to the kingdom's rightful heir.
VIY (12) 1967 RUSSIA KROPACHYOV, GEORGI £12.99
Viy is an acclaimed Russian horror tale based on Nikolai Gogol’s story
VLADIMIR LENIN: REBEL, REFORMER, REVOLUTIONARY (E) £18.99
Collection of two documentaries that examine aspects of the life of the Russian communist leader. 'Lenin: An Anatomy of a Legend - Parts 1 and 2' looks at Lenin's legacy. A hero to some, a villain to others, Lenin arguably divides opinion more than any other Russian historical figure.
'Who Shot Lenin?' examines the various assassination attempts on Lenin. Though none were successful initially, it is likely that the wounds he carried from at least one of the attempts contributed to Lenin's death in 1924.
WAR (18) 2002 RUSSIA BALABANOV, ALEKSEI £19.99
British actor and his girlfriend are captured whilst on tour in Georgia by Chechen rebels
along with several Russian soldiers.
WAR AND PEACE (PG) 1967 RUSSIA BONDARCHUK, SERGEI FIVE DISCS £49.99
Oscar-winning version of Tolstoy’s classic work.
WARD NO.6 (15) 2009
RUSSIA ALEKSANDR GORNOVSKY, A/SHAKHNAZAROV, K £15.99
The film
transposes the original 19th century setting of Chekhov's story to
present-day Moscow.WEATHER STATION (15) 2010 RUSSIA O'REILLY, JOHNNY £12.99 Detectives are sent to a remote weather station in the Russian arctic to investigate why communication have ceased. On arrival they find the station abandoned. What has happened to the meteorologists, have they been murdered? WHITE TIGER (12) 2012 RUSSIA SHAKHNAZAROV, KAREN £15.99
Russian war film about a Red Army sergeant's obsession with a seemingly invincible Tiger tank.
YOU I LOVE (15) 2004 RUSSIA TROITSKY, D./ STOLPOVSKAYA, OLGA £19.99
Comedy concerning a bisexual Muscovite yuppie.ZOOLOGY (12A) 2016 RUSSIAN TVERDOVSKIJ, IVAN I. DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY £17.99 Lonely,
55-year-old Natasha, is a zoo worker still living at home with her
mother. One day she wakes up having grown a tail, but decides to embrace
her transformation and begins to enjoying her new lease of life, until a
rumour spreads in the neighbourhood that Natasha has been marked by
the devil. ZVENIGORA (PG) 1928 RUSSIA
DOVZHENKO, ALEKSANDR £12.99
Silent fantasy
drama in which an elderly man tells his grandson about the legend of the
Scythian treasure. Believing the tales to be true, the boy searches for the treasure throughout the
remainder of his life. Building on this theme of folklore, the film also
deals with historical facts, covering industrialisation and the
Ukranian Steppe, as well as criticising the European bourgeoisie.
EARLY RUSSIAN CINEMA - A
UNIQUE VIDEO ANTHOLOGY IN 10 VOLUMES - PRODUCED BY THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE. VIDEO ONLY
VOL 1 - BEGINNINGS(E)
45 mins. VIDEO ONLY £15.99
A Fish Factory in Astrakham,
Sten’ka Razin, Princess Tarakanova, Romance with Double Bass.
VOL 2
- FOLKLORE AND LEGEND (E) 55mins. VIDEO ONLY £15.99
Drama
in a Gypsy Camp, Brigand Brothers, A 16 Century Russian Wedding,
Rusalka.
VOL 3 - STRAEWICZ’S FANTASIES (E) 58 mins. VIDEO
ONLY £15.99
Dragonfly and the Ant, Christmas Eve, The Lily of
Belgium
VOL 4 - PROVINCIAL VARIATIONS (E) 55 mins. VIDEO
ONLY £15.99
Wedding Day, Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter.
VOL
5 - CHARDYNIN’S PUSHKIN (E) 45 mins. VIDEO ONLY £15.99
The
Queen of Spades, The House in Kolomna.
VOL 6 - CLASS
DISTINCTIONS (E) 99 mins. VIDEO ONLY £15.99
The Peasants’
Lot, Silent Witness.
VOL 7 - EVGENI BAUER (E) 95 mins.
VIDEO ONLY £15.99
A Child of the Big City, The 1002nd Ruse,
Daydreams.
VOL 8 - IAKOV PROTAZANOV (E) 104 mins. VIDEO ONLY
£15.99
The Department of a Great Old Man, The Queen of Spades.
VOL
9 - HIGH SOCIETY (E) 100 mins. VIDEO ONLY £15.99
Antosha
Ruined by a Corset. A life for a life, The Funeral of at work. Vera
Kolodnaia.
VOL10- THE END OF AN ERA (E) ’72 mins. VIDEO ONLY
£15.99
The Revolutionary, For Luck, Behind the Screen. Charming
simple silent comedy of
a household tyrant who get his comeuppance.
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BULGARIAN DVDS
AVE (15) BULGARIA BOJANOV, KONSTANTIN
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Ave, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch. AvE invents new identities for them and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble.THE LESSON (15) 2014 BULGARIA GROZEVA, K/VALCHANOV, P £15.99 Struggling teacher is trying to turn her life around when she discovers there is a thief amongst one of her students and resolves to find out who it is so she can teach them a lesson. SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE (E) 2012 BULGARIA METEV, ILIAN £12.99 Observational documentary which follows a paramedic crew in charge of an ambulance in the Bulgarian city of Sofia. ZIFT (15) 2008 BULGARIA GARDEV, JAVOR £16.99
Crime mystery following three friends whose lives are shaped by a failed robbery.
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN/SLOVAKIAN/CZECH REPUBLIC DVDS
1941 - THE BATTLE OF TOBRUK (15) CZECH REPUBLIC/SLOVAKIA 2008 MARHOUL, VACLAV £9.99 Tense, unsentimental WWII drama in which two Czech recruits find themselves in North Africa helping out the allies. A BLONDE IN LOVE (15) 1965 CZECHOSLOVAKIA FORMAN, MILOS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 A female factory worker in rural Czechoslovakia meets a pianist for Prague at a dance and they spend the night together. He return to Prague and she decides to pay him a visit much to his surprise.
An emotional tale of two lovers trapped in the march of history. ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN (15) 1969 CZECHOSLOVAKIA JASNÝ, VOJTECH £12.99 Cannes award winning film set among the interwoven lives of Moravian villagers following the 1948 socialization of Czechoslovakia. Director Vojtech Jasný is seen as the spiritual father of the Czech New Wave and the film was banned in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion. ALOIS NEBEL (15) 2011 CZECH LUNÁK, TOMÁS £12.99 Animated film-noir abnout a lonely train dispatcher, sees the ghosts which haunt him and his country's past.
AUDITION/TALENT COMPETITION (12) 1963 CZECHOSLOVAKIA FORMAN, MILOS £12.99
Considered to be the film that launched the Czech New Wave
BIRDS, ORPHANS AND FOOLS (15) 1969 SLOVAKIA JAKUBISKO, JURAJ £15.99
Shot immediately after the Soviet invasion of 1968, Jakubisko’s long-repressed feature focuses on the relationship that develops between two male friends and a female Jewish orphan as they travail a world ravaged by death and destruction, a war-torn landscape of bombed-out churches and wrecked homes.BLACK PETER (12) 1964 CZECHOSLOVAKIA FORMAN, MILOS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Forman’s
debut feature is a wry and provocative comedy about 17-year-old Petr,
who gets a job as a security guard at a busy local shop. However he
struggles with the job and his boss, in this portrait of everyday life
under totalitarianism.
BROKEN PROMISE (E) 2009 SLOVAKIA CHLUMSKÝ, JIRÍ £15.99
Based on a true story, following the fate of a Jewish boy who enjoys a fairly ordinary and happy childhood until the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938 leads to the creation of a new nation, Slovakia, and a dramatic increase in anti-Semitism. BUTCHER OF PRAGUE (15) 2001 CZECH REPUBLIC NIKOLAEV, PETR £14.99 On June 10, 1942, over 300 people, many of whom are children, where massacred in the Czech village of Lidice in Central Bohemia by Nazi soldiers in retaliation for the assassination of Nazi general Reinhard Heydrich . The film tells this harrowing story. THE CZECHOSLOVAK NEW WAVE - A COLLECTION (15) £24.99
Features - 'Diamonds of the Night' (1964), 'Intimate Lighting' (1969) and 'The Cremator' (1969).
CREMATOR (15) CZECH REPUBLIC 1968 HERZ, JURAJ £12.99
Film has been described as surrealist-inspired horror.
CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS (15) CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1966 MENZEL, JIRI £17.99
Tragic-comic tale of a young railway guard at a sleepy country station in the Second World War.
CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE (18) 1996 CZECH SVANKMAJER, JAN £15.99
Exploring the bizarre exotic impulses of individuals in present day Prague.
DAISIES (18) CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1966 CHYTILOVA, VERA £17.99
An acclaimed comedy-drama revolving around two teenage girls who decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well. A series of destructive pranks ensue.
DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT (12) 1964 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NEMEC, JAN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Jan Nemec, enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave, directs this
starkly surrealist drama telling the brutal story of two Jewish boys who
escape from a train transporting them from one Nazi death camp to
another. DRAGON'S RETURN (15) 1968 CZECHOSLOVAKIA GRECNER, EDUARD £12.99 A key film from Slovak cinema’s golden era, Eduard Grecner's Dragon's Return is a radical fusion of ancient folklore and experimental modernism - and an exciting rediscovery.
EAR (12) 1970 CZECHOSLOVAKIA KACKYNA, KAREL £12.99
Banned in Czechoslovakia, the film is one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system.
FALL OF THE INNOCENT (15) 2011 CZECH £14.99
Drama based on the horrific events that took place in Lidice under the Nazi regime during the Second World War.FIREMAN'S
BALL (PG) 1967 CZECH FORMAN, MILOS £15.99
Forman's allegorical
comedy about bureaucracy was his last Czech film before he left for
America.
FRANTISEK
VLACIL COLLECTION (15) CZECHOSLOVAKIA C FRANTISEK VLACIL £24.99
Three films by Czech master director Frantisek Vlacil. ‘Marketa
Lazarova’ (1967), ‘The Valley of the Bees’ (1968) and ‘Adelheid’ (1970). FRUIT OF PARADISE TRAPS (18) 1970 CZECHOSLOVAKIA CHYTILOVÁ, VERA £12.99 Vera Chytilová co-writes and directs this Czech experimental drama retelling the story of Adam and Eve.
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND (15) CZECHOSLOVAKIA 2006 MENZEL, JIRI £15.99
Much of the film is told in flashback, transporting the audience back to Prague, both before and during World War II.IKARIE XB-1(12) 1963 CZECHOSLOVAKIA POLÁK, JINDRICH £12.99
Pioneering and much-imitated film is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema.
INTIMATE LIGHTING (12) 1982 CZECHOSLOVAKIA PASSER, IVAN £12.99
Wry yet sympathetic look at the human condition, and role that music can play in life. INVENTION FOR DESTRUCTION (12) 1958 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ZEMAN , KAREL DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 (BOTH FORMATS REGION FREE) One of the most commercially successful Czech films. The film is a combination of live-action and animation and is a heartfelt homage to Jules Verne's tales of science and adventure.
JAN SVANKMAJER: THE COMPLETE SHORT FILMS 1964-1992 (15) CZECH REPUBLIC £32.99
KOLYA (12) 1996 CZECHOSLOVAKIA SVERAK, JAN £19.99
Czech man marries a Russian woman for money but gets more than he bargained for.LARKS ON A STRING (15) 1990 CZECHOSLOVAKIA MENZEL, JIRI £15.99
Comedy drama set in a labour camp in 1950s Communist-run Prague. The film tells the stories of the various characters interned in the labour camp-cum-scrapyard, who have been deemed counter-revolutionary and 'bourgeois' by the Czech government and are now forced to spend their days sorting out piles of scrap metal for the purposes of 're-education'.
LITTLE OTIK (15) 2000 CZECHOSLOVAKIA JAN SVANKMAJER IN ENGLISH £9.99
Dark fairy story about a living tree stump.
LUNACY (18) 2005 CZECH SVANKMAJER, JAN £15.99
Comic horror tale of a young man who falls under the influence of the Marquis de Sade.
MANDRAGORA (18) CZECHOSLOVAKIA 2003 GRODECKI, WIKTOR £19.99
Graphic portrayal of teenage boys living in a world of sex, drugs, prostitution.
MARKETA LAZAROVÁ (15) CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1967 VLÁCIL, FRANTISEK £12.99
A Czech clan falls foul of the King in medieval times, set against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism. MIRACULOUS VIRGIN (12) 1967 CZECHOSLOVAKIA UHER, STEFAN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 (REGION FREE) This surreal odyssey is based on a 1944 novella by Dominik Tatarka, but is now set in the 1960s. Mysterious Anabella inspires a group of young artists and challenges the material world. Includes the short - Marked by Darkness MORGIANA (15) 1972
CZECHOSLOVAKIA HERZ, JURAJ £12.99
Extravagantly hallucinatory Gothic horror story is often
described as the last film of the Czech New Wave. Based on a short story
by Aleksandr Grin.
NOT ANGELS BUT ANGELS (18) CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1994 GRODECKI,WIKTOR £19.99
Documentary portrait of teenage hustlers in Prague. THE ODDSOCKEATERS (PG) 2016 CZECH REPUBLIC MIKLÍNOVÁ, GALINA £10.99 Animated adventure about a small creatures (the Oddsockeaters) who eats one sock from each pair of socks.
Allegory about the cause and effects of power and conformityPICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD (E) 1972 SLOVAKIA HANÁK, DUSAN £12.99 Dusan Hanák writes and directs the documentary about the lives of nine people living in the remote and forgotten villages of the Tatra mountains as they struggle with dire poverty and deprivation - a sharp contrast to the communist propaganda of the time which promised citizens a socialist paradise.
POST COITUM (18) 2004 SLOVAKIA JAKUBISKO, JURAJ £15.99
A look at the complex, intermingled sexual relationships between a number of diverse characters.
ROMEO, JULIET AND DARKNESS (12) 1960 CZECHOSLOVAKIA WEISS, JIRÍ £12.99
Set in 1942 Prague, where a student hides a Jewish girl in the attic of his apartment building. SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET (15) 1965 CZECHOSLOVAKIA KADÁR, JÁN/KLOS, ELMAR £12.99 Set in the German-occupied, 'independent' Slovak state during World War II. A carpenter is appointed 'Aryan Controller' of a button shop owned by an old Jewish woman, who, being both near-sighted and deaf, has no idea that there is a war on. SOMETHING DIFFERENT/A BAGFUL OF FLEAS (PG) 1963 CZECHOSLOVAKIA CHYTILOVÁ,VERA £12.99 'Something Different' (1963) follows the lives of frustrated housewife Vera (Vera Uzelacová) and gymnast Eva (Eva Bosáková). While Vera struggles to get her husband to appreciate her and the work she does, Eva contends with a gruelling training schedule as she prepares to participate in her last competition. 'A Bagful of Fleas' (1962) depicts a young girl's rebellion against those in charge of her all-girl school dormitory. SUN IN A NET (12) 1962 SLOVAKIA UHER, STEFAN £12.99
This groundbreaking film is consistently ranked among the greatest
films in the history of Czechoslovak cinema and is cited as the film
that kick-started the whole 'Czechoslovak New Wave' movement.SURVIVING LIFE (THEORY AND PRACTICE) (15) 2010 CZECHOSLOVAKIA SVANKMAJER, JAN £15.99
Surrealist animated comedy poking fun at the psychoanalytical interpretation of dreams. TENDERNESS (15) 1991 SLOVAKIA SULÍK, MARTIN BLU RAY 19.99 A rich and complex coming-of-age story, Tenderness focuses on a passionate and often cruel ménage à trois shaped by a country in the throes of political upheaval and social transformation. Cited as one of the finest ever Slovak feature debuts, the film marked the arrival of Šulik as one of international cinema's most vital talents. THREE WISHES FOR CINDERELLA (PG) 1973 CZECHOSLOVAKIA/GDR VORLÍCEK, VÁCLAV £12.99 Classic fairy tale, beautifully filmed in Dresden and Prague, about a poor girl whose magic hazel nuts transforms her so that she can attend the ball and meet the prince. TRANSPORT FROM PARADISE (15) 1963 CZECHOSLOVAK BRYNYCH, ZBYNEK £12.99
In the Theresienstadt ghetto of Czechoslovakia, the Nazis are preparing for a visit from the International Red Cross. In an attempt to cover up the real function of the ghetto they draft in actors for a propaganda film which will show the community flourishing as opposed to dwindling.TRAPS (18) 1998 CZECHOSLOVAKIA CHYTILOVÁ, VERA £12.99 After meeting men rape a woman she take brutal revenge.
VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (15) 1970 CZECHOSLOVAKIA JIRES, JAROMIL DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £20.99 Gothic fairy tale about Valerie, a young village girl on the cusp of adolescence, indulges in Gothic daydreams and fantasies. WITCHHAMMER (15) 1970 CZECHOSLOVAKIA VÁVRA, OTAKAR DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Set in 17th century Moravia, an old woman is accused of witchcraft and a judge is brought in to deal with the case and quickly begins accusing more of the local women of devil worship and sorcery IN BLOOM (15) GEORGIA 2013 NANA EKVTIMISHVILI, N/GROß, S £15.99 Set against the backdrop of the country's civil war in the 1990s . THE SEARCH (15) 2014 GEORGIA HAZANAVICIUS, MICHEL £19.99
Bérénice Bejo stars as Carole, an NGO worker stationed in Chechnya during the Chechen War in 1999. Here Carole takes mute and traumatised orphan, Hadji (Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev) under her wing. THE PRESIDENT (15) GEORGIA 2014 MAKHMALBAF, MOHSEN (5055159278812) £15.99 In this dark satire the people overthrown the despotic president of an unnamed country. Accompanied by his recently orphaned grandson, the president then travels the country disguises as a street musician in an attempt to avoid capture but who begins to learn about the people he oppressed. TANGERINES (15) 2013 GEORGIAN URUSHADZE, ZAZA DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY £15.99 Set during the 1992 war in Abkhazia, Georgia an Estonian tangerines farmer with land in Abkhazian gets dragged into the bloody conflict at his door. HUNGARIAN DVDS AUTUMN ALMANAC (15) 1984 HUNGARY TARR, BÉLA £15.99
Set in a claustrophobic apartment, the film follows the interactions of five room-mates who live on the fringes of society. CHILDREN OF GLORY (15) HUNGARY 2006 GODA, KRISZTINA £17.99 Set during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history. DELTA (18) 2008 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZO, KORNEL £19.99 Hungarian drama about a son's return to his village roots to build a house. A LONG WEEKEND IN PEST AND BUDA (12) 2003 HUNGARY MAKK, KAROLY £17.99 Former couple meet again when the woman falls terminally ill. ANOTHER WAY (18) 1982 HUNGARY MAKK, KAROLY £12.99 A tender love story of two women, set against the fall-out from the 1956 Hungarian uprising. CHILDREN OF GLORY (15) HUNGARY 2006 GODA, KRISZTINA £17.99 Set during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history. CONFIDENCE (BIZALOM) (15) 1980 HUNGARY SZABO, ISTVAN £12.99 Oscar-nominated film is a haunting and moving experience dealing with complex questions of love, trust, loyalty, and betrayal. DELTA (18) 2008 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZO, KORNEL £19.99 Hungarian drama about a son's return to his village roots to build a house. ELECTRA, MY LOVE (15) 1974 HUNGRARY JANCSÓ, MIKLÓS £12.99 Many years after the death of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of the tyrant Aegisthus , oppressed Electra seeks revenge by inspiring the people to rebel against Aegisthus and end his cruel reign once and for all. FATHER (15) 1966 HUNGRARY SZABÓ, ISTVÁN £12.99 Set between the period of the Second World War to the Hungarian uprising of 1956, Szabó's powerful cinematic ode relates historical events through the prism of personal experience.. FATELESS (12) 2005 HUNGARY KOLTAI, LAJOS £19.99 Adaptation of Imre Kertész novel based on his childhood experiences) about a Jewish boy sent to Auschwitz. HUKKLE (PG) 2002 HUNGARY PALFI, GYORGY £19.99 Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary. HUNGARIAN MASTERS BOX SET (3 FILMS) (15) £24.99 Features - Love / My Way Home / Diary of My Children. JOHANNA (15) 2005 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉL £19.99 An updating of the Joan Of Arc Legend and tells a tale of female suffering and redemption. JUPITER'S MOON (15) 2017 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ , KORNÉL £12.99 Sci-fi
film about a young Syrian refugee Aryan Dashni who is shot while
illegally trying to cross into Hungary. In a refugee camp doctor Gabor
Stern nurses Aryan back to health. However on recover Aryan discovers
he possesses the power to levitate and fly, which Dr Stern decides to
exploit. But all Aryan wants is to be reunited with his father. KILLS ON WHEELS (15) 2016 HUNGARY TILL, ATTILA DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99 Inventive,
action-packed coming-of-age film about friendship, loyalty and revenge
set in a care home. Disabled and inseparable friends, Zoli and Barba,
need money to pay for medical care, which bring them into contact with
the mysterious ex-con Rupasovm, who offers them a chance to make some
extra money by helping him in his work. KONTROLL (15) 2003 HUNGARY ANTAL, NIMROD £19.99 Black comedy set entirely in Budapest’s subway network. LOVE (12) 1971 HUNGARY MAKK, KAROLY £12.99 After her husband is arrested , his wife attempts to ease the pain of his ailing mother, by concocting a tale of his fantastic new life in America. THE MAN FROM LONDON (12) 2007 HUNGARY TARR, BELA IN ENGLISH £15.99 Hungarian director Bela Tarr helms this brooding mystery drama, which is loosely based on a lesser-known novel by Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon. MY 20TH CENTURY (15) HUNGARY 1989 ENYEDI, ILDIKÓ £12.99 Comedy drama about identical twin sisters Dóra and Lili who are adopted by two different families following the death of their mother. Years later Lili, a revolutionary planing an assassination, meets Z who then also comes across the other estranged twin. MY WAY HOME (12) HUNGARY 1965 JANCSO, MIKLÓS £15.99 In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy is captured and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. PEOPLE OF THE MOUNTAINS (15) 1942 HUNGARY SZÖTS, ISTVÁN £12.99 Forgotten masterpiece, filmed entirely on location in harsh conditions, tells the story of a woodcutter and his family who live high in mountains of Transylvania. Forced out of their home and enticed into a new work the families life begins to unravel one tragic misfortune after another. PLEASANT DAY (18) 2002 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉL £19.99 A bleak, often brutal drama of adolescent life in Hungary. RED AND THE WHITE (12) HUNGARY 1967 JANCSO, MIKLÓS £12.99 An almost abstractly study of power and the utter futility of war. RED PSALM (15) 1972 HUNGARY JANCSÓ, MIKLÓS £12.99 Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, the film - famously shot in just 28 long takes - recounts the story of a peasant uprising in Hungary in the earliest days of socialism in the 1890s, delivering an exuberantly expressive essay on the nature of revolution and the underlying issues of oppression, morality and violence. ROUND UP (15) HUNGARY 1966 JANCSO, MIKLÓS £12.99 Set in the mid 19th century , Hapsburg soldiers are hunting Hungarian partisans. SILENCE AND CRY (12) 1968 HUNGARY JANCSÓ, MIKLÓS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Final part of an epic unofficial trilogy, following The Round-Up and The Red and the White, Silence and Cry reveals the terrible impact of tyrannical power, politics and history. STRANGLED (18) 2016 HUNGARY SOPSITS, ÁRPÁD DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99 Thriller
set in 1960s as group of detectives race against the clock to catch a
killer who has already claimed the lives of several young women, before
an innocent man is wrongly convicted for the crimes. SUNSET HUNGARY (15) 2018 HUNGARY NEMES, LÁSZLÓ £15.99
Set in 1913, the film follows Írisz Leiter as she travels from
Trieste to Budapest, hoping to reconnect with her past and discover a
long lost brother. SZINDBAD (15) 1971 HUNGARY HUSZARIK, ZOLTAN £12.99 A surreal and highly stylized adaptation of the life, loves of Szindbád TAXIDERMIA (18) HUNGARY 2006 PALFI, GYORGY £19.99 Surreal film charting three male generations of the same, bizarre family. TURIN HORSE (15) 2011 HUNGARY TARR, BÉLA/HRANITZKY, ÁGNES £15.99 Black and white drama set in the early 19th century and inspired by a story about the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES/DAMNATION (15) HUNGARY 2000/1987 TARR,BELA £19.99 Two dvds with two films from one of Hungaries most original contemporary filmmakers. The first film is about a small town disturbed by the arrival of a circus, the other about a man obsessed with a bar singer. WHITE GOD (15) 2014 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉL £19.99 13-year-old Lili searches for her dog in Budapest. THE FENCER (PG) 2015 ESTONIA HÄRÖ, KLAUS £15.99 Set in 1953 Endel flees the secret police in Leningrad and moves to the small town of Haapsulu where he takes up a post as a PE teacher and starts teaching the kids to fence in defiance of the school head who wants the sport banned. To do this the head digs into Endel past. KILLER INK (18) 2015 LITHUANIA DOWNS,D/GAGE,K £14.99 Lithuanian horror movie with an evil tattoo artist. NOVEMBER (15) 2017 ESTONIAN SARNET, RAINER DUAL FORMAT DVD AND BLU RAY £12.99 Inventive,
funny and magical film is set in snowy landscape of 19th-century
Estonia and is an adapted from the novel by Andrus Kivirähk. Evoking
influences as varied, as The Brothers Grimm, Bela Tarr and Jan
Vankmajer, young Lina and Hans are preparing to marry in their pagan
village where werewolves and spirits roam free. VANISHING WAVES (18) 2012 LITHUANIA BUOZYTE, KRISTINA IN LITHUANIAN £15.99 Lithuanian sci-fi thriller. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE LITHUANIA (18) 2016 LITHUANIAN ZABARAUSKAS, ROMAS £15.99
Actress, Indre murders her mother and filmmaker Romas and his boyfriend
Carlos will help her flee the country, but only on the condition that
they film the escape to make an improvised experimental film.
POLISH DVDS
1939: BATTLE OF WESTERPLATTE (15) 2012 POLAND CHOCHLEW, PAWEL £15.99
Film charts the conflict between two Polish officers in charge at the Battle of Westerplatte, the first clash between Polish and German forces in WWII.
ALL THAT I LOVE (TBA) 2009 POLAND BORCUCH, JACEK £14.99
Coming-of-age
drama about four schoolboys who form a punk band. Set over the course
of one year, against the backdrop of the political uprisings in Poland
in 1981 their emergent and often conflicting ideals in a dangerously
volatile political climate.
ANDRZEJ WAJDA WAR TRILOGY (12) 1955-58 POLAND £29.99
Features - Ashes and Diamonds, A Generation & Kanal.ASHES AND DIAMONDS (12) 1958 WAJDA, ANDRZEJ £22.99
In 1945, on the day World War Two ends, young Nationalist underground member Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), who has remained steadfastly loyal to the British government throughout the Nazi occupation, is ordered to kill the new local Communist leader. His outlook is changed as he waits overnight in a hotel when he meets and falls in love with a young girl.BATTLE OF WARSAW 1920 (15) 2011 POLAND HOFFMAN, JERZY £15.99
Drama about the final battle of the Polish-Soviet War.
BLIND CHANCE (18) POLAND 1981 KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF £19.99
Young man is running to catch a train. The film them follows three imagined outcomes of this event. THE BORDER (18) 2014 POLAND £17.99 A Polish squads job is to control human trafficking on the countries border with the Ukraine. When all the squad, but one, are killed and the innocent surviving squad member goes on the run as the authorities make him a prime suspect.
CAMERA BUFF (18) POLAND 1979 KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF £19.99
A man buys cine camera to film his new baby. The camera becomes a consuming passion and it leads to unforeseen problems. COLD WAR (15) 2018 POLAND PAWLIKOWSKI, PAWEL DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Beautifully shot in black and white, this romantic epic is set in Post war Europe. Two people with different backgrounds and temperaments beginning an affair, but the Cold War splits them apart. One heads for the freedom of West and one opts to stay. An impossible love story in impossible times. DEKALOG AND OTHER TELEVISION WORKS (15) 1998 POLAND KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF DUAL FORMAT BLU RAY/DVD £63.99 All ten episodes of the acclaimed Polish drama series 'Dekalog', revolving around the consequences arising from a breach of one of the Ten Commandments. Also included are all of Kieslowski’s television work, starting with his first professional short fiction film and continuing with four feature-length pieces. EROICA (12) 1958 POLAND MONK, ANDRZEJ
Set during World War II, the feature is comprised of two separate tales. The first, entitled 'Scherzo Alla Pollacca', follows Dzidzius (Edward Dziewonski), a Warsaw man who is drawn into the war in spite of his fervent desire to protect himself from danger at all costs.
'Ostinato Lugubre' takes place in a Prisoner of War camp, where the escape bid of Lt. Zawistowski (Tadeusz Lomnicki) becomes a subject of legend among the patriotic Polish POWs. However, was Zawistowski trying to escape from the camp or merely to escape from them?ESCAPE FROM THE LIBERTY CINEMA (12) 1990 POLAND MARCZEWSKI, WOJCIECH £12.99 Dark political satire examining the effects of censorship. A lonely government censor has to deal with an actors on strike at his local cinema, the Liberty.
ESSENTIAL KILLING (15)
POLAND SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY £15.99
Thriller about an
Afghanistan who is transferred to a detention centre in an unspecified
eastern European country for interrogation, but manages to escape his
captors. Now, as an escaped convict in a hostile and unknown country, he
is forced to take extreme measures in order to survive.FIRE AND SWORD (15) 1999 POLAND HOFFMAN, JERZY £9.99
Polish historical epic set during the Khmelnytsky Uprising in 17th-century Ukraine.FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS (18) POLAND WASILEWSKI, .TOMASZ
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Award winning film, described by the director as ‘the first Polish LGBT film’, about two young male swimmers who fall in love and the unsympathetic reaction this elicits. HATRED (18) 2017 POLAND SMARZOWSKI, WOJCIECH £15.99 Zosia a young Polish girl is forced to leave her Ukrainian lover Petro and marry a rich widower, Skiba. However when WWII breaks out Skiba joins the Polish army, leaving Zosia to fend for herself as tensions rises between local Jews, Poles and Ukrainians, resulting in violent clashes.
THE HOUR GLASS SANITORIUM (15) 1973 POLAND HAS WOJCIECH £13.99
Set in a pre-WWII Poland this road-movie for the mind follows a traveller as he reminisces about events in his life.IDA (12A) 2013 POLAND PAWLIKOWSKI, PAWEL DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Set in a convent in the 1960s, orphan Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) decides she wants to take her vows and tells her only living relative, Wanda (Agata Kulesza). However Wanda reveals to Anna that her real name is Ida Lebenstein and that she is actually Jewish causing Anna to rethink her whole life. IN DARKNESS (15) 2011 HOLLAND, AGNIESZKA £19.99
Acclaimed drama based on the true story of a sewage worker who saved the lives of 14 Jews in the Polish city of Lvov during the Second World War. In Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, German.IN A BEDROOM (15) 2012 POLAND WASILEWSKI, TOMASZ £15.99
Thriller about a lonely 40 year old woman who picks up men and drugs them with sleeping pills and takes advantage of their hospitality.
IN THE NAME OF (15) 2013 POLAND SZUMOWSKA, MALGORZATA £15.99
Charismatic Catholic priest runs a centre for troubled young men in a small village, but as his friendship with one of the young men develops he fight a battle against his own passions and his priestly obligation to be chaste.
INNOCENT SORCERERS (12) 1960 POLAND WAJDA, ANDRZEJ £12.99
Drama following young doctor, whose compulsive womanising has left him tired and all but immune to the charms of the girls who attempt to seduce him. However, when he enjoys an intense conversation with a mysterious woman, who subsequently disappears, he finds himself smitten and sets off around the city in search of her. INTERROGATION (18) 1982 POLAND BUGAJSKI, RYSZARD £12.99
Woman wakes up in prison and is soon being tortured to confess to a crime she hasn’t committed. JACK STRONG (15) 2014 POLAND WLADYSLAW PASIKOWSKI, £14.99 Espionage thriller.
KNIGHTS OF THE TEUTONIC ORDER (PG) 1960 POLAND FORD, ALEKSANDER £12.99
Epic tale of Poland and Prussia in the Miiddle Ages based on the novel by Nobel winner Henryk Sienkiewicz.
KNIFE IN THE WATER (PG) 1962 B/W POLAND POLANSKI, ROMAN £19.99
Roman Polanski’s first feature film.LAST FAMILY (15) 2016 POLAND MATUSZYNSKI., JAN P £15.99 The film follows the ups and downs of dystopian surrealist painter Zdzislaw Beksinski , his wife and their neurotic suicidal son Tomasz LIFE FEELS GOOD (15) 2013 POLAND PIEPRZYCA, MACIEJ £15.99 Heartwarming story about a man who lives with severe cerebral palsy that has alienated him from the rest of the world for the first 25 years of his life as he grow up during Poland’s transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s. MAN OF MARBLE (PG) 1977 POLAND WAJDA, ANDRZEJ £14.99 Often described as ‘the Polish CITIZEN KANE’, Wajda’s MAN OF MARBLE is not only regarded as one of the greatest, most important films in the history of Polish cinema, it is also one of the key films of the 1970s and one of the most compelling attacks on government corruption ever made. This groundbreaking feature is presented in an all new HD digital restoration.Extras: New exclusive interviews with director Andrzej Wajda, star Krystyna Janda and filmma
MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS (PG) 1961 POLAND KAWALEROWICZ, JERZY £19.99
Chaos ensues when a Mother Superior of a convent finds herself possessed by the Devil.
NAKED (15) POLAND 2001 SWIETNICKI, W/KRZYSZTOF J £16.99
Award winning film about working an office of naked people, questioning our attitudes to nakedness and inter-office relationships.
NIGHT TRAIN (12) 1959 POLAND KAWALEROWICZ, JERZY £12.99
Polish thriller about two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta
(Lucyna Winnicka), who are on the run. By coincidence they happen to
have bought the same ticket and even though both wanted privacy they
decide to share a sleeping quarter for the duration of the journey. NINA(15) 2018 POLAND CHAJDAS, OLGA £15.99 After discovering that Nina is unable to conceive, she and her husband Wojtek set out to find a surrogate. When Wojtek happens to meet Magda and notices that she has green eyes, a trait they desire for their own offspring, he takes her to meet Nina. What ensues is a complicated web of deceit as Nina and Magda form an unexpected bond that may threaten the future of her marriage with Wojtek.
NO END (18) POLAND 1985 KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF £19.99
Set during Marshall law in Poland, the film is part ghost story, political drama and a meditation on love.PAPUSZA (15) 2013 POLAND KRAUZE,K/KOS-KRAUZE J £15.99 Biopic based on the life of Polish-Romani poet Bronislawa Wajs.
PASSENGER (PG) 1963 POLAND MUNK, ANDRZEJ £12.99
Wife confesses to her husband that she was an overseer at the Auschwitz
concentration camp, but that she managed to save a woman’s life.
POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS (12) 1960 POLAND £39.99
A 4-DVD set comprising four remarkable films (all available for the first time in the UK) Eroica (1958) Andrzej Munk's two-part anti-war poem is a darkly comic, intelligent and insightful satire on duty, courage and heroism, Night Train (1959): Jerzy Kawalerowicz's homage to Hitchcock,Innocent Sorcerers (1960) is a provocative film by Andrzej Wajda about contemporary youth from a script co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski and finally Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (1960) is directors Janusz Morgenstern's touching story of young love.POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS: VOLUME II (15) POLAND £33.99
Features - Andrzej Wajda Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, 1974), Krzysztof Zanussi - Illumination (Iluminacja, 1973), Wojciech Marczewski - ESCAPE FROM 'LIBERTY' CINEMA (Ucieczka z kina 'Wolnosc', 1990). POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS VOL. III (15) POLAND £39.99 The third volume of our Polish Cinema Classics series incorporates three of the finest Polish films of the 1970s and 80s. All three films are presented from new HD digital transfers with restored picture and sound.
The Cruise (Rejs) (Marek Piwowski, 1970) -Regarded as Polish cinema's first 'cult' film, Piwowski's absurdist comedy is a satire of life in the People's Republic of Poland. Camouflage (Barwy ochronne) (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1976) - A milestone in Polish cinema which probes into the moral fabric of the society underlying Poland's regime and Shivers (Dreszcze) (Wojciech Marczewski, 1981)- A coming-of-age story set in a 1950s Stalinist youth camp, Marczewski's film daringly explores themes of erotic and political fascinations. THE PROMISED LAND (15) 1975 POLAND WAJDA, ANDRZEJ £12.99 Three ambitious businessmen looking to profit from the rise of industry in continental Europe during the 19th century. All equally as ruthless as each other, the three men come up against numerous hurdles and some stiff competition in their pursuit of wealth.
Contains -: Knife In The Water (1962), Repulsion (1965), and Cul-De-Sac (1966), plus bonus disc contains award-winning short films: Two Men And A Wardrobe (1958), A Murderer (1957), Teethful Smile (1957), Breaking Up The Dance (1957), When Angels Fall (1959), Mammals (1962), and The Fat And The Lean (1961).ROMAN POLANSKI - A FILM MEMOIR (15) 2011 BOUZEREAU, LAURENT £14.99 Award-winning director Roman Polanski talks candidly about his life and career.
THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (15) 1965 POLAND HAS WOJCIECH £13.99
Epic adaptation of Jan Potocki's 19th-century gothic novel has become a cult classic since its making in 1965, and has since been cited as a major inspiration by filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Luis Bunuel and David Lynch.
SCAR (18) POLAND 1976 KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF £19.99
Film about the benefits and disadvantages of a new cemical plant being in an impoverished town.
SHADOWS OF OUR FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (15) ARMENIA 1964 £19.99
Flamboyant visual film drawn from Carpathian folklore.
A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING(18) 1988 POLAND KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF £19.99
Based on one of the commandments
A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE (15) 1988 POLAND KIESLOWSKI,KRZYSZTOF £19.99
Based on one of the commandments
STORY OF SIN (15) POLAND 1975 BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN £19.99
Tragic romance based on the turn-of-the-century literary classic by the Polish writer Stefan Zeromski
THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT (15) 1971 POLAND ZULAWSKI, ANDRZEJ £12.99
Award-winning debut feature is set in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II UNITED STATES OF LOVE (18) 2016 POLAND WASILEWSKI, TOMASZ DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 1990s,
with the decline of communism, four women who are trying to adapt to
the changing times and their new-found freedom. The intertwined foursome
include Agata, who becomes obsessed with a local priest, schoolteacher
Iza is having an affair with a doctor, and her fellow teacher Renata
yearns for a closer relationship with her neighbour Marzena WALESA - MAN OF HOPE (12) 2013 POLAND WAJDA, ANDRZEJ £17.99
Biopic about Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa the shipyard worker turned human rights activist.WARSAW 1944 (15) 2014 POLAND KOMASA, JAN £19.99 Set in WWII young soldier Stefan joins the Warsaw Uprising to take back the city from its Nazi occupiers.
ROMANIAN DVDS
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS (PG) ROMANIA 2007 MUNGU, CRISTIAN
£19.99
Award winning drama set in the last years of
Communist-era Romania.
12:08. EAST OF
BUCHAREST (15) 2006 ROMANIA PORUMBOIU, CORNELIU £19.99
Porumboiu
debut film sharply satires the short memories and inconsistencies of
post-revolutionary Romania. AFERIM! (18) 2015 ROMANIAN JUDE, RADU £19.99 Set in 1830s in the wild Wallachian region, this Romanian western recreates the beliefs, ideas, values and aspirations of the era, as a local policeman is hired to find a Gypsy slave who had run away from a Boyar's estate. AURORA (12) 2010 ROMANIA PUIU, CRISTI £15.99
Dark thriller that provides an insight into the mind of a psychopath and questions the motives behind such a violent act.BEYOND THE HILLS (12A) 2012 ROMANIAN MUNGIU, CRISTIAN
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Dark Romanian drama following two young women at odds with their past.
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (15) ROMANIA
2007 MEMESCU, CRISTIAN £9.99
Satire of petty bureaucracy and
cultural misunderstanding , set in a small Romanian town during the
1999 Kosovo conflict.
CHILDREN
UNDERGROUND (E) 2001 ROMANIA BELZBERG, EDET £14.99
Documentary
detailing the plight of the street children of Romania's capital city,
Bucharest.CHILD'S POSE (15) ROMANIA 2013 NETZER, CALIN PETER £19.99 A ward-winning drama that traces an overbearing mother's attempts to regain control of her son's life following his involvement in a fatal car crash.GRADUATION (15) 2016 ROMANIA MUNGIU, CRISTIAN DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 Bright 18 year old student Eliza lives in a remote town in Transylvania. On the day before she is to sit her final exam to get a place at a prestigious British university, she is assaulted by a strange man near her school and loses her confidence. Her father, a doctor, must go against his principles and call in all the favours to help is daughter pass her exam. NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN (15) 2013 ROMANIA BOND, FREDRIK DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99 Surreal romantic comedy about a man returned to Romania to carry out a mother's dying wish.
DEATH
OF LAZARESCU (15) 2005 ROMANIA PUIU, CRISTI £19.99
Lazarescu’s
trip to the medical unit descends into a nightmare-ish journey of
horrendous mistreatment at the hands of the hospital staff.
IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (15) 2011 ROMANIAN SERBAN, FLORIN £15.99
Romanian-language drama following the struggles of a teenage offender due for release.
LOVE
SICK (15) 2006 ROMANIA GIURGIU, TUDOR £14.99
A lesbian
relationship between a pair of college students is put to the test by a
jealous male sibling.
POLICE, ADJECTIVE (15) 2009 ROMANIA PORUMBOIU, CORNELIU £15.99
On orders from his superiors, a police officer is asked to investigate the case of a teenage boy, the police officer questions the ethical ramifications of his task and avoids taking the case further, knowing that conviction would lead to a prison term of up to seven years. STUFF AND DOUGH (15) 2001 ROMANIA PUIU, CRISTI £12.99 Ovidiu is approached by a gang to deliver a mysterious package to Bucharest for the mob. However on the journey they being followed by a red car which refuses to be shaken off.
TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (15) 2010 ROMANIA MUNTEAN, RADU £12.99
A married man with a child finds himself compelled to choose between his wife and his lover in the lead up to Christmas.SERBIAN/SLOVENIAN/YUGOSLAVIAN/CROATIAN/ARMENIAN DVDS4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS (PG) ROMANIA 2007 MUNGU, CRISTIAN £19.99
Award winning drama set in the last years of Communist-era Romania.12:08. EAST OF BUCHAREST (15) 2006 ROMANIA PORUMBOIU, CORNELIU £19.99
Porumboiu debut film sharply satires the short memories and inconsistencies of post-revolutionary Romanian.
BEFORE THE RAIN (15) 1984 UK MANCHEVSKI, M. PART MACEDONIAN PART ENGLISH £19.99
A three-part drama which alternates between London and Macedonia. In Part 1, 'Words', a young Macedonian monk protects a runaway Albanian girl. Part 2, 'Faces', focuses on a love affair in London. Part 3, 'Pictures' is set back in Macedonia where a bloody ethnic conflict is brewing. Academy Award nominated for Best Foreign Film.
BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT (15) YUGOSLAVIA 1998 KUSTURICA, EMIR £19.99
Comedy set within a community of gypsy people.
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (15) ROMANIA 2007 MEMESCU, CRISTIAN £9.99
Satire of petty bureaucracy and cultural misunderstanding , set in a small Romanian town during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.
A CALL GIRL (15) 2009 SLOVENIA KOZOLE, DAMJAN £15.99
A young woman who takes on work as a call girl to help fund her studies gets caught up in a world of pimps, politicians and police as events spiral out of her control in the award-winning film.
CHILDREN
UNDERGROUND (E) 2001 ROMANIA BELZBERG, EDET £14.99
Documentary
detailing the plight of the street children of Romania's capital city,
Bucharest.
CINEMA KOMUNISTO (TBA) 2010 TURAJLIC, MILA £19.99
Documentary about the history of Yugoslavian cinema and Marshal Josip Broz Tito's connection to it. A film lover himself, Tito supported the industry and filmmakers, enabling soldiers to work as extras and Hollywood stars and directors to use the country for location shoots. However, following Tito's death the industry went into decline with studios and workers going out of business.
The film features interview footage of Tito's personal projectionist Leka Konstantinovic, as well as other movie professionals from that prosperous time.
DEATH OF LAZARESCU (15) 2005 ROMANIA PUIU, CRISTI £19.99
Lazarescu’s trip to the medical unit descends into a nightmare-ish journey of horrendous mistreatment at the hands of the hospital staff.
DO YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL? (15) YUGOSLAVIA 1981 KUSTURICA, EMIR SERBO-CROAT £19.99
Set in 1960s Sarajevo, a young man tends to his ailing father.
DONKEY (15)
2009 CROATIA NUIC, ANTONIO CROATIAN £12.99
Croatian drama following the return of a man and his young
family to his home village against a backdrop of war. Boro brings his
wife Jasna and son Luka back to Herzegovina for an extended family
gathering. It is clear that tension exists between the three, but this
is nothing compared to that amongst the family in Herzegovina. EARTHQUAKE (15) 2016 ARMENIA ANDREASYAN, SARIK £15.99 Set during the 1988 Spitek earthquake 50-year-old Russian Konstantin and 28-year-old Armenian Robert work together to rescue the survivors. INCARNATION (15) 2016 SERBIA KOVACEVIC, FILIP £12.99 Low-budget Serbian action thriller. The film follows an amnesiac man (Stojan Djordjevic) who finds himself stuck in a deadly time loop in which he wakes up on the same bench in an unknown city and is pursued by masked assassins who want him dead. KILLER MERMAIDS (15) 2013 SERBIA TODOROVIC, MILAN £15.99 Two young Americans visit a remote former Nazi concentration on a deserted prison island camp known as Mamula and discover a bloodthirsty being lurking in the watery depths.
LIFE IS A MIRACLE (15) 2003 SERBIA KUSTURICA, EMIR £19.99
Blend of bawdy humour and love story set against the turbulent backdrop of the Bosnian war of the early 90s.
LOVE SICK (15) 2006 ROMANIA GIURGIU, TUDOR £14.99
A lesbian relationship between a pair of college students is put to the test by a jealous male sibling.LOVING GLANCES (15) 2003 SERBIA KARANOVIC, SRDJAN £15.99
Light-hearted Serbian-language drama following the love that blossoms between two refugees in 1990s Belgrade. PANAMA (15) 2015 SERBIA VUCKOVIC, PAVLE £15.99 After a love affair ends with Maja, architecture student Jovan continues to stalk her every move online. THE PARADE (15) 2011 SERBIA DRAGOJEVIC, SRDJAN £15.99
Serbian comedy drama. Forever under threat from homophobic right wing groups, gay couple Mirko (Goran Jevtic) and Radmilo (Milos Samolov) are forced to live a discreet personal life in Belgrade.PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (18) IN SERBO-CROAT 1996 DRAGOJEVIC, SRDJAN £15.99
Based on a true story set in the first winter of the Bosnian war in 1992. PRIEST'S CHILDREN (15) 2013 CROATIA BRESAN, VINKO £17.99 Dark Croatian comedy about a Catholic priest who moves to a small island with dwindling population and takes drastic underhand measures to raise the birth rate. SILENT SONATA (15) 2010 SLOVENIA BURGER, JANEZ £15.99
The Circus Fantasticus pulls up at the dilapidated farmhouse situated
in a barren war torn landscape and the residents of the farmhouse learn
to live with their loss through their interactions with the performers
SKINNING (18) 2010 SERBIA FILIPOVIC, STEVAN £15.99
Serbian crime drama following Novica (Nikola Rakocevic), an introverted high school student with a talent for mathematics who falls in with the wrong crowd. When Novica becomes acquainted with skinhead Relja (Viktor Savic) after helping him cheat in a maths competition, it is not long before he becomes involved in crime. At first hooliganism at a football match leads to Novica's arrest but when he becomes a member of Relja's white supremacist gang things take a much darker turn.
SPARE PARTS (15) 2003 SLOVENIA KOZOLE, DAMJAN £19.99
Film about the lives of two people smugglers and the immigrants who pass through their hands. TECHNOTISE: EDIT & I (15) 2009 SERBIA ANDRIC,N./GAJIC, A./DJORDJEVIC, Z £12.99 Cyberpunk anime set in 2074 in which a female psychology student has a memory chip implanting in her body to help her cheat in her exams. However the miracle chip starts taking over her mind.
TULPAN (12) 2008 KAZAKHSTAN DVORTSEVOY, SERGEI KAZAKH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES £15.99
First feature from award winning director Segei Dvortsevoy is an astonishing ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie.
UNDERGROUND (18) 1995 IN SERBO-CROAT KUSTURICA, EMIR 3 DISC SET DVD £29.99 BLU RAY - £29.99 Based on Dusan Kovacevic’s story ‘Once Upon A Time There Was A Country’, the story follows two likable crooks from 1944 Belgrade to the Yugoslavian Civil War in the 1990s in this complete 5-hour TV version.
WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS (15) YUGOSLAVIA 1981 KUSTURICA, EMIR SERBO-CROAT £19.99
Film about a young boy grows up in 1950s Yugoslavia, oblivious to the political situation around him.ZAGREB STORIES: VOLUME 1 (TBA) 2009 £12.99 Collection of short films set in, and around, the Croatian capital of Zagreb. The nine films included document the experiences of various characters living in different parts of the city. The films are: 'Slap in the Face', 'Yellow Moon', 'Bill Collector', 'Goran Odvorcic and Matija Klukovic's Film for Asja Jovanovic and Andrea Rumenjak', 'Recycling', 'Game Over', 'Canal', 'Spansko: A Continent' and 'The Smartest Neighbourhood in the Country'. UKRAINIAN DVDSALMOST HOLY (15) 2015 HOOVER, STEVE £15.99 Film
follows the activities of Ukrainian Pastor Gennadiy began forcibly
kidnapping the homeless children in the night and taking them to his
rehabilitation centre. His controversial methods have drawn both
admiration and consternation. MAIDAN (E) 2014 UKRAINE LOZNITSA, SERGEI £14.99 Documentary centred around the civil uprisings in Ukraine during 2013. THE TRIBE (18) 2014 UKRAINE SLABOSHPITSKY, MIROSLAV £19.99 Filmed in sign language, with no dialogue, subtitles or voice over, we follow a new student at a Ukrainian school for deaf and mute children as he deals with gangs and love.
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