Krakatit (4K UHD + Blu Ray) Deluxe Limited Edition CZECH Deaf Crocodile NEW, OOP For Sale

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• 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.

  Special Features

  • 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

  Deluxe Edition Bonus Content

  • Slipcase featuring new artwork by Richard Cox.

  • 60-page illustrated book

  • New essay by film Walter Chaw

  • New essay by film Jonathan Owen

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