Krakatit 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Deaf Crocodile

Título original: Krakatit

Año: 1948
Pais: Czechoslovakia
Código de región: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Contenido: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 850066568590

Imagen: 1.37:1 (2160p)

HDR: Dolby Vision / HDR10

Audio: Czech - DTS-HD Mono

Subtítulos: English

Calificatión por edades: Not Rated

Género: Thriller / Classic

Reparto: Karel Höger

Director: Otakar Vávra


Sinopsis:

KRAKATIT, 1948, N.F.A., 101 min.  “Long wandering,” a voice whispers in the brain of a man staggering along a misty riverbank, the night as fog-shrouded as his shattered mind.  Czech director Otakar Vávra’s astonishing KRAKATIT is a literal fever dream of a movie that mixes 1940s Film Noir, paranoid thriller and speculative atomic-bomb Sci-Fi in the story of a chemist named Prokop who hallucinates fragments of how he's invented a proto-nuclear weapon -- and the mystery of what's happened to the formula for it.  The film has overtones of Rudolph Maté's classic Noir D.O.A. (seriously-ill man racing against the clock), 1940s Orson Welles films like THE STRANGER and THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (stunning deep-focus B&W photography, atmosphere of surreal paranoia), and Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND (distorted dream sequences).  Karel Höger delivers an unforgettable performance in the lead, grasping at his own memories like a walking ghost.  Based on a 1924 novel by famed sci-fi author Karel Čapek (who invented the word “robot” in his play R.U.R.), the film’s unique structure of memories within memories within flashbacks are like Russian nesting dolls -- all shot by DOP Václav Hanuš in some of the most remarkable B&W images since NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.  Long wandering, indeed.  Deaf Crocodile is thrilled to present the first-ever 4K UHD + Blu-ray release for this overlooked classic of Czech cinema and World Noir, beautifully restored in 4K by the Národní filmový archiv (NFA) in Prague and co-presented with the Comeback Company.

Extras:

• New video interview on the film’s restoration with archivist Tereza Frodlová of the Národní filmový archiv, Prague.
  
• New commentary by film historian Peter Hames and Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company
  
• New visual essay by film historian Clayton Dillard.
  
• New artwork by Beth Morris