Second Run

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>István Szabó is perhaps the best-known of all Hungarian filmmakers, having made hugely successful, Oscar-winning films in Hungary, Europe and in Hollywood. This Box Set uncovers the most creative and exuberant period of Szabó's Hungarian cinema, with a trio of exceptional films made in collaboration with actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, writer Péter Dobai and cinematographer Lajos Koltai. These films unravel the conflicts of history, society, and the individual in a rich and dazzlingly audacious, yet personal manner. These important and powerfully relevant films are presented from stunning 4K restorations, and released for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. The set includes: Mephisto (1981): István Szabó's Oscar-winning adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel paints a portrait of Hendrik Höfgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a passionate but struggling actor who, despite his political ambivalence, remains in Germany as the Nazis come to power. When he accepts a Nazi official's offer to make him a star, Höfgen finally receives the success and adulation he has long sought - but at what price? Colonel Redl (1985): Set in the years leading up to WW1, and inspired by John Osbourne's controversial 1965 play A Patriot for Me, Szabó's film charts the rise of the brilliant but unscrupulous Alfréd Redl in the Austro-Hungarian military. Compromised by his secret homosexuality, Redl is manipulated into a series of treasonous betrayals, becoming a prisoner of his own deceptions. Hanussen (1988): Wounded during WW1, an Austrian soldier claims he has gained the power to foresee the future. Adopting the name Erik Jan Hanussen, he sets himself up as a hypnotist, astrologer and clairvoyant in a Berlin theatre, ingratiating himself with those in power. Szabó's film vividly recreates the period as the film parallels the rise of Hanussen with Hitler and the Nazi regime.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set (Limited Edition - Restored)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of short films by British artist and experimental film-maker Ben Rivers which frequently blur the line between documentary and fiction. The collection includes: 'A World Rattled of Habit' (2008), 'Ah, Liberty!' (2008), 'Astika' (2006), 'The Big Sink' (1993), 'The Coming Race' (2006), 'Ghost Strata' (2019), 'House' (2005), 'The House Was Quiet' (2020), 'The Hyrcynium Wood' (2003), 'I Know Where I'm Going' (2009), 'Ijen/London' (2022), 'Look Then Below' (2019), 'Now, at Last!' (2019), 'Old Dark House' (2003), 'Origin of the Species' (2008), 'Phantoms of a Libertine' (2012), 'Sack Barrow' (2011), 'The Shape of Things' (2016), 'Slow Action' (2010), 'There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay' (2015), 'Things' (2014), 'This Is My Land' (2006), 'Trees Down Here' (2018), 'Urth' (2016) and 'We the People' (2004).<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Special Edition</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of two films directed by Vojtech Jasny. His debut feature 'Desire' (1958) intertwines four stories of Czech rural life. 'All My Good Countrymen' (1968) explores the lives of seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialisation of Czechoslovakia, from 1945 until 1958. The film follows various residents of the rural communities as they struggle to adapt to life under the new communist regime.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of films by American film-maker and artist Kevin Jerome Everson. The films are: 'Spicebush' (2005), 'The Island of St. Matthews' (2013), 'Tonsler Park' (2017) and 'Erie' (2010). The collection also includes the following shorts: 'Feb26' (2014), 'Sound That' (2014), 'Ears, Nose and Throat' (2016), 'Old Cat' (2009), 'Company Line' (2009), 'BZV' (2010), 'Ten Five in the Grass' (2012), 'Grand Finale' (2015), 'Three Quarters' (2015), 'Eason' (2016), 'IFO' (2017), 'Rams 23 Blue Bears 21' (2017), 'Polly One' (2018), 'Round Seven' (2018), 'Union' (2019), 'Sanfield' (2020) and 'Brown Thrasher' (2020).<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Special Edition</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Collection of three dramas from Polish film-maker Jerzy Skolimowski. 'Walkover' (1965) stars Skolimowski as his alter-ego Andrzej Leszczyc who is facing a crisis caused by the fact that the end of his youth is rapidly approaching. Having dropped out of engineering school, boxer Andrzej reconnects with Teresa (Aleksandra Zawieruszanka), a former classmate who now works as a manager at an energy plant. She gets him a job offer but rather than work, he instead wants to take part in an amateur boxing tournament. Although they are fundamentally different people, romance blossoms between them. 'Barrier' (1966) stars Jan Nowicki as a medical student struggling to find his place in the world. Seeking to overcome all of life's obstacles, he wanders through Warsaw without purpose until a young tram driver (Joanna Szczerbic) catches his attention. Finally, in 'Dialogue 20 40 60' (1968), three directors - Skolimowski, Peter Solan and Zbynek Brynych - each tell a version of a story in which couples aged 20, 40 and 60 speak the same dialogue in very different settings.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Limited Edition Box Set</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>A collection of three classic Polish films. Set in the late 1800s, 'The Promised Land' (1975), follows the underhand methods three friends, a Polish aristocrat (Daniel Olbrychski), a Jew (Wojciech Pszoniak), and a German (Andrzej Seweryn), employ as they try to get their fledgling factory off the ground in the newly industrialised textile manufacturing centre of Lodz. Director Krzysztof Zanussi's 'Illumination' (1972), is a semi-autobiographical investigation into truth and enlightenment, as seen through the eyes of graduate physics student Franciszek Retman (Stanislaw Latallo). As he searches for the meaning of life through his studies and his involvement with those he comes into contact with, Franciszek comes to realise that life, as such, is outwith our control. Finally, in 'Escape from 'Liberty' Cinema' (1990), a Polish provincial censor is taken aback when the actors in the film he is watching decide that they've had enough, and refuse to speak their lines. After summoning help from party officials and realising the scenario echoes Woody Allen's film 'The Purple Rose of Cairo', the situation quickly deteriorates when, whilst demonstrating the similarities, the two films are accidently superimposed on one another.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Triple bill of Czechoslovakian New Wave films. In 'Diamonds of the Night' (1964), two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one Nazi death camp to another. As the boys run through the rugged and unfamiliar terrain, hounded by a band of armed German villagers, their flight is interpolated by their dreams, hallucinations, fantasies and memories. In 'Intimate Lighting' (1969), successful musician Peter (Zdenek Bezusek) and his girlfriend visit an old friend who is in charge of a small music school. The reunion then causes the characters to reflect on their lives, where they've ended up and how the decisions they've made have brought them there. In 'The Cremator' (1969), Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is the owner of a crematorium in the early stages of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia who finds in the situation an opportunity to fulfil his business ambitions, justify his anti-Semitism and exert his obsession for control. His discovery that his wife has 'impure' blood sends him on a psychopathic spiral, leading to a tragic climax.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>