The White Dove / Joseph Kilian ( Holubice / Postava k podpírání )

The White Dove / Joseph Kilian (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Holubice / Postava k podpírání
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Czech ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1960 - 1965 and produced in:
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Frantisek Vlácil
Pavel Jurácek
Jan Schmidt

Written By:
Pavel Kopta
Frantisek Vlácil
Pavel Jurácek
Jan Schmidt

Actors:
Katerina Irmanovová ..... Susanne
Anna Pitasová ..... Michal's Mother
Karel Smyczek ..... Michal
Vjaceslav Irmanov ..... Michal's Father
Hans-Peter Reinicke
Gustav Püttjer
Pavel Bartl ..... Jan Herold
Pavel Silhánek
Stanislav Michler
Consuela Morávková
Ivan Ruzicka
Karel Vasicek

Synopsis:

Second Run DVD present a unique double bill of two early works now regarded as two of the main precursors of the Czechoslovak New Wave. The White Dove (1960) is the bold and striking debut feature of master filmmaker Frantisek Vlácil (Marketa Lazarova; The Valley of the Bees). It is a sparse, elegantly composed and stunningly beautiful tale of a wheelchair-bound boy and an artist who inadvertently intercept a homing pigeon and nurse it back to health. Josef Kilián (1965) is a dark and absurdly humorous, biting allegory of life under the Communist regime. Author of the screenplays for Daisies, Ikarie and A Jester's Tale, yet Pavel Jurácek remains one of the Czech New Wave's most neglected artists. He made only four films, and this surrealist masterpiece - inspired by two icons of Czech literature: the anti-militarist, anti-authoritarian Jaroslav Hasek and the grotesque nightmares of Franz Kafka - was banned forever after the Soviet invasion of 1969.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 06 March, 2015.

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