THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set New visual essay narrated by

New visual essay narrated by Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company

SIGNALS was DEFA’s cheeky attempt to outdo Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY behind the Iron Curtain

UNIVERSUM BRDEČKA (2017

Siamak Safari

alternately reinforcing and frustrating each other – all fueled by a tragedy so ferocious that it’s literally burned a hole through the fabric of reality

THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set New visual essay narrated byTHE PIED PIPER (KRYSA), 1986, Czechoslovakia, 53 min. Director Ji Bartas stop motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half Jan van Eyck. The money obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their