Valerie a týden divů = Valerie and her week of wonders / 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.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 11311392CC2489DDVD | Criterion CollectionCC2489D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Czech Original language: Czech Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 761.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1681430029
- 9781681430027
- Valerie and her week of wonders
- 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies.
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; full screen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
In Czech, with optional subtitles in English.
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.
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.
Based on a story by Vítězslava Nezvala
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
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.
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.