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1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arno₍t Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual poetry
Adapted from the novella "Darkness casts no shadow" (Tma nemá stín) by Arnošt Lustig
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964
Full screen (1.37:1)
Special features: Interview from 2009 with Jan Němec; "A loaf of bread" Němec's student thesis film; Arnošt Lustig through the eyes of Jan Němec; new interview with Irena Kovarova; new video essay by James Quandt; essay by Michael Atkinson
Ladislav Jaǹsky, Antonin Kumbera
Rating: Not rated
Blu-ray; full screen (1.37:1); mono; 1080p high definition; requires Blu-ray player
Czech dialogue; English subtitles