NEW RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN RELEASES

Post date: Jan 18, 2016 8:8:14 PM

AFERIM! (18) 2015 ROMANIAN JUDE, RADU £19.99

Set in 1830s in the wild Wallachian region, this Romanian western recreates the beliefs, ideas, values and aspirations of the era, as a local policeman is hired to find a Gypsy slave who had run away from a Boyar’s estate.

ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN (15) 1969 CZECHOSLOVAKIA JASNÝ, VOJTECH £12.99 Cannes award winning film set among the interwoven lives of Moravian villagers following the 1948 socialization of Czechoslovakia. Director Vojtech Jasný is seen as the spiritual father of the Czech New Wave and the film was banned in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion.

DRAGON’S RETURN (15) 1968 CZECHOSLOVAKIA GRECNER, EDUARD £12.99 

A key film from Slovak cinema’s golden era, Eduard Grecner’s Dragon’s Return is a radical fusion of ancient folklore and experimental modernism – and an exciting rediscovery.

FRUIT OF PARADISE  (18) 1970 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 

CHYTILOVÁ, VERA £12.99

Vera Chytilová co-writes and directs this Czech experimental drama retelling the story of Adam and Eve.

PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD (E) 1972 SLOVAKIA HANÁK, DUSAN £12.99

Dusan Hanák writes and directs the documentary about the lives of nine people living in the remote and forgotten villages of the Tatra mountains as they struggle with dire poverty and deprivation – a sharp contrast to the communist propaganda of the time which promised citizens a socialist paradise.

RED ARMY (15) 2014 RUSSIA POLSKY, GABE £15.99

Documentary which focuses on the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team. During the Cold War, the national team of the Soviet Union dominated the sport of ice hockey.

TECHNOTISE: EDIT & I (15) 2009 SERBIA ANDRIC,N./GAJIC, A./DJORDJEVIC, Z £12.99

Cyberpunk anime set in 2074 in which a female psychology student has a memory chip implanting in her body  to help her cheat in her exams. However the miracle chip starts taking over her mind.

THE TRIBE (18) 2014 UKRAINE SLABOSHPITSKY, MIROSLAV £19.99

Filmed in sign language, with no dialogue, subtitles or voice over, we follow a new student at a Ukrainian school for deaf and mute children as he deals with gangs and love.

WHITE GOD (15) 2014 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉL £19.99

13-year-old Lili searches for her dog in Budapest.

DVD available to buy at –

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