THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set and two legendary missing cosmonauts

and two legendary missing cosmonauts

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

Fascinating compilation by Bohumil Veselý of behind-the-scenes footage from Czech Silent films shot between 1918-1929 (including several by Kolár) and assembled in the 1950s

wildly entertaining:  unearthly and operatic and totally addictive

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

THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set and two legendary missing cosmonautsTHE 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