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Valerie and her week of wonders = Valerie a týden divů
Title
Valerie and her week of wonders = Valerie a týden divů / Janus Films ; Ústřední půjčovna filmů v Praze uváldí ; scénář napsali, Ester Krumbachová a Jaromil Jireš ; dramaturg, Jiří Musil ; režie, Jaromil Jireš ; Filmové studio Barrandov nositel Řádu práce = Valerie and her week of wonders / Janus Films ; Central Film Distribution presents ; screenplay by Ester Krumbachová, Jaromil Jireš ; directed by Jaromil Jireš.
ISBN
1681430029
9781681430027
Edition
DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Medium
DVD video 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on a story by Vítězslava Nezvala
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; Short films (by director Jaromil Jires): Stredja = Uncle (1959), Stopy = Footprints (1960), Sál stracených kroků = The hall of lost footsteps (1960); Resurrecting the avant-garde (interview with film historian Peter Hames); Jaroslava Schallerová (2006 interview with the actor about her role in the film, by Pavel Křemen); Jan Klusák (2006 interview with the actor about the making of the film by Pavel Křemen); The Valerie project score (alternate 2007 psycho-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project); More than a soundtrack: the Valerie Project (a new video piece on the music's origins); New English subtitle translation. Insert includes an essay by critic Jana Prikryl.
Production design by Ester Krumbachová ; costumes by Eva Lackingerová ; set design by Josef Calta ; art direction by Jan Oliva ; music by Luboš Fišer ; instrumentalists, Filmový symfonický orchestr ; conductor, František Belfín ; editor, Josef Valušiak ; cinematography, Jan Čuřík.
In Czech, with optional subtitles in English.
Summary
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies.
Variant and related titles
Valerie a týden divů
Valerie and her week of wonders
Stredja (Motion picture)
Stopy (Motion picture)
Sál stracených kroků (Motion picture)
Uncle.
Footprints.
Hall of lost footsteps.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Czech
Added to Catalog
December 20, 2017
Series
The Criterion collection ; 761
Credits
Production design by Ester Krumbachová ; costumes by Eva Lackingerová ; set design by Josef Calta ; art direction by Jan Oliva ; music by Luboš Fišer ; instrumentalists, Filmový symfonický orchestr ; conductor, František Belfín ; editor, Josef Valušiak ; cinematography, Jan Čuřík.
Cast
Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýžová, Petr Kopřiva, Jiří Prýmek, Jan Klusák, Libuše Komancová, Karel Engel, Alena Stojáková, Otto Hradecký, Martin Wielgus, Jiřina Machalická, Michaela Klocová, Zdenka Kovářová, Bedřiška Chalupská, Robert Nezval.
System details note
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; full screen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
11311392
CC2489DDVD Criterion Collection
CC2489D Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Coming-of-age films.
Vampire films.
Fantasy films.
Action and adventure films.
New wave films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films - Czechoslovakia.
Foreign language films - Czech.
Motion pictures - Czechoslovakia.
Foreign films - Czechoslovakia.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Action and adventure films.
Coming-of-age films.
Drama.
Fantasy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
New wave films.
Vampire films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Valerie Project (Musical group), composer (expression)
Janus Films, film distributor.
Ústřední půjčovna filmů (Prague, Czech Republic), production company.
Filmové studio Barrandov, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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