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Jan Svankmajer – Historia Naturae, Suita AKA Historia Nature Suite (1967)
A eight-part animatied portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music – the various parts are: Aquatilia…
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Jan Svankmajer – Zahrada AKA The Garden (1968)
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested…
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Jan Svankmajer – Tichý týden v dome AKA A Quiet Week In the House (1969)
A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a…
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Jan Svankmajer – Kostnice AKA Ossuary (1970)
A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).…
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – The Cultural Heritage [Disc 1] (1926 – 1928)
Love’s Berries 1926The mistress of hairdresser Jean Kovbasyuk throws a baby up to him. Jean decides in any method to…
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Arsenal (The Cultural Heritage) [Disc 2] (1928)
In Arsenal, Alexander Dovzhenko, perhaps the most radical of the Soviet directors of the silent period, altered the already extended…
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Zemlya – versions of 1930 & 1971 (The Cultural Heritage [Disc 3]) (1930)
Earh (1930) 59 min.Poetic cinema story about events related to collectivization in Ukraine at the end of 20th years of…
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Ivan Pyryev – Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy AKA The Tale of Siberian Land (1947)
From Mosfilm:Andrey Balashov, a pianist, had to quit music after being wounded during the Great Patriotic War. Having failed to…
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