Czech New Wave Cinema – which peaked during the 1960s and early 1970s – offered a mosaic of sociopolitical commentary which blended the political and the personal with the surreal and the…
Tag: Czechoslovakia
Zbynek Brynych is one of the important yet lesser known film-makers of the Czech New Wave. His directorial debut, A Local Romance (1958) gained him international attention, screened at Cannes and nominated…
An unhinged, unsettling & uncomfortable chiller that effortlessly sustains its eeriness from the first frame to the last, The Cremator (also known as Spalovac mrtvol) is an increasingly disturbing & extremely morbid example…