| Edition |
Widescreen edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Masterpiece collection |
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Masterpiece collection (Facets Video (Firm))
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Cast |
Miroslav Machacek, Olga Scheinpflugova, Jiří Adamira. |
| Credits |
Idea, Hana Bělohradská ; screenplay, Hana Bělohradská, Zbyněk Brynych ; dramaturgists, Věra Kálabová, Radovan Kalina ; directed by Zbyněk Brynych ; editor, Miroslav Hájek ; director of photography, Jan Kališ ; music, Jiří Sternwald. |
| Note |
Release date: Jul. 27, 2006. |
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"Newly remastered from a restored print from the National Archives"--container. |
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Special features: onscreen introduction by Andrew Horton of Kinoeye; Facets Cine-notes collectible booklet; scene selection. |
| Summary |
An aging Jewish doctor is forbidden to practice medicine in Prague during the Nazi occupation. He is employed in a warehouse as a clerk, cataloguing confiscated Jewish property. When a partisan is wounded, the doctor reluctantly agrees to treat him. The doctor hides him in his run-down apartment building as he sneaks through the black-market underworld of Prague in search of morphine to ease the man's pain, ever fearful of informant neighbors and vigilant authorities. Within a historical context, director Zbyněk Brynych creates a thinly-disguised allegory about contemporary communist Czechoslovakia that is rich in atmosphere and dark in tone. The expressionist cinematography and stellar performances make this lost masterwork an unforgettable viewing experience. |
| Language |
In Czech with English subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Subject |
Feature films -- Czechoslovakia.
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Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Drama.
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Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Drama.
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| Added Author |
Brynych, Zbynek.
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Bělohradská, Hana, 1929-2005
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Kalábová, Věra, 1932-
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Kalina, Radovan.
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Macháček, Miroslav.
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Scheinpflugová, Olga, 1902-1968
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Adamira, Jiří.
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Filmové studio Barrandov.
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Československý filmexport.
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Facets Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Fifth horseman is fear |
| Note |
Container title: Fifth horseman is fear |
| ISBN |
156580547X |
| Standard No. |
736899099121 |
| Music No. |
DV76925 Facets Video |
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