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Cast: Petar Bozovic, Mirjana Nikolic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Sona Valentoví¡, Leonid Kuralev, Natalya Varley A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area’s pagan past still have a hold on the population. There he finds himself the guest of a strange old family consisting of a sadistic Count and his mad mother, who—legend has it—was raped by a bear on her wedding night; the Count himself reputed to be the product of this bestial assault. light) Kier-La Janisse has assembled to help define the genre, but perhaps the best answer is to simply echo a certain Supreme Court Justice named
Audio Commentary With William Fowler And Vic Pratt, Curators And Authors Of “The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside of British Film & Television”Just as importantly, the acting is spot on. Vladimír Smeral is perfectly despicable as Boblig, a man who wallows in his corrupt intentions but still manages to convince and even charm many of the locals involved in all of this simply by playing up their religious convictions. He's excellent here, so good in fact that you wind up hating him by the time it is all over with. Elo Romancik as the noble Lautner, the one man willing to take a stand against Boblig, is just as good. We know he isn't perfect and so does he, and Romancik portrays him not as flawless, but as human. Sona Valentoví¡ doesn't get as much to do here as the two male leads but her work in the film is excellent. When Boblig and his cronies eventually 'break' her, we feel for her in a big way. The celebrated writer discusses his career and the origins of ROBIN REDBREAST. Courtesy of the British Film Institute.
A filmed appreciation by essayist and critic Kat Ellinger and film historian Michael Brooke. Courtesy of Second Run Films. Potter Stewart who was trying to decide a case involving supposed pornography, and who famously opined, "I shall not today attempt further to define The disc also includes a twelve minute interview with John Bowen where the writer goes over the origins of Robin Redbreast and how he came to write the story, where some of the inspiration and ideas came from, autobiographical details that are in the movie such as buying up an older house where some unusual occurrences took place, how the story was received when it was released, how he feels like is a mix of the horrifying and the ordinary, working with the BBC on the production, the first broadcast of the movie and his thoughts on the adaptation.Extras for Leptirica begin with Radical Fairy Tales, an interview with director Djordje Kadijevic that runs for just over thirty-one minutes. He speaks about choosing the subjects for his films, adapting works of literature for the screen, his thoughts on the film's source material, getting his start making war-related films in the aftermath of WWII, other filmmakers whose work influenced his own, why he switched from making war films to making films based on fairy tales, his work as an art history professor and how it affects his filmmaking, why he made certain changes to the story when he made Leptirica, how audiences reacted to the film when it first premiered and how it was received by the press, the differences between fantasy in Eastern Europe versus Western Europe, why he is attracted to certain themes that turn up in his films, and details on some of the other films that he's made over the years. Severin Films (Blu-ray) (US R0 HD) / WS (1.85:1) (16:9), Umbrella (DVD) (Australia R0 NTSC) WILCZYCA Cast: Kevin Kí¶lsch, Dennis Widmyer, Piers Haggard, Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein, Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19 th century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area’s pagan past still have a hold on the population. There he finds himself the guest of a strange old family consisting of a sadistic Count and his mad mother, who—legend has it—was raped by a bear on her wedding night; the Count himself reputed to be the product of this bestial assault. Based on the true story of Christine Carpenter, a 14 th -century peasant who becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit. Alone in her cell she receives dark and sensual visions, while in the outside world, her defiant mother (played by musician Toyah Wilcox) is accused of witchcraft.
The Landscape of Feelings: The Road to Penda's Fen (16 mins) A Documentary on the making of Rudkin and Clarke's groundbreaking Drama, featuring interviews with Writer David Rudkin and Producer David Rose as well as contributions from Clarke collaborators such as Writer David Yallop, Actor Sean Chapman and Playwright David Leland. Courtesy of The British Film Institute.
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