The cremator
DVD - 2020
Karl Kopfrkingl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs.
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- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Comedy films
Horror films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2020]
- Language
- Czech
English - Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.
Based on the novel by Ladislav Fuks.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Special edition features: The junk shop, director Juraj Herz's 1950 debut short film; short documentary from 2011; new interview with film programmer Irena Kovarova about the style of the film; documentary from 2017 about composer; interview with actor Rudolf Hrusinsky from 1993; trailer; plus an essay by scholar Jonathan Owen. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.66:1); monaural.
- Audience
- Rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Costume designer, Olga Dimitrovová ; production designer, Zbynek Hloch ; film editor, Jaromír Janácek ; music, Zdeněk Liška ; director of photography, Stanislav Milota.
- ISBN
- 9781681436944
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