Second Run DVD - Coming Soon

Adelheid
A film by František Vláčil, Czechoslovakia 1969.

The first colour film by Czech master director František Vlácil ADELHEID is an emotional tale of two lovers trapped in the march of history.

In the aftermath of WWII, a Czech airman returns home from his tour of duty with the British RAF, intending to claim a German factory located in the Sudetenland along the Czech-German border. There he meets the beautiful Adelheid, the former owner's daughter who once lived in the estate but is now reduced to servitude. The Czech airman falls in love with Adelheid, but lingering resentment and bitter political strife stand in the way of their happiness.

"Provides a profound analysis of the human distortions caused by ideology" Peter Hames, Central Europe Review

The DVD is presented in a new digital transfer with restored picture and sound, improved English subtitles and includes a new essay by author Peter Hames.

Release Date: 23rd August 2010

Morgiana
A film by Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia 1971.

Often described as the 'last' film of the Czech New Wave, Juraj Herz's delirious tale of terror is a fantastical and surreal phantasmagoria of dark desires and splintered minds.

Morgiana, based on a short story by Aleksandr Grin, (the 'Russian Poe'), is the story of two sisters, Klára and Viktoria who live a life of decadent excess stranded somewhere between the mid-19th and early 20th century. Klára is blonde and beautiful, whilst Viktoria is ugly, sadistic, bursting with hate and jealousy - and hatches a terrible revenge by slowly poisoning her more popular sister. As the poison takes hold, Klára begins to lose grip on her sanity...

Part fairy-tale, part Gothic horror, Morgiana is a full-blown hallucinatory experience from the director of The Cremator (also available on Second Run DVD).

"A memorable exercise in gothic excess from the noted Czech filmmaker Juraj Herz" Fright.com

"Edward Gorey as filmed by Ken Russell... It's like a dress-up, younger-generation version of Baby Jane set in an ornamental snow globe" www.kinosvetozor.cz

Disc extras being finalised

Release date: September 2010

All White in Barking / Men of the City
Two films by Marc Isaacs, UK 2007 / 2009.

Following our release last year of Three Films by Marc Isaacs – comprising Lift / Travellers / Calais: The Last Border - we are delighted to continue with a further two films from one of the UK's most acclaimed documentary filmmakers.

All White in Barking (2007 ~ 73 mins)

Isaacs' compassionate and illuminating documentary weaves together stories of assorted residents living in the rundown London borough of Barking and Dagenham, where fast-rising immigration has coincided with a far-right backlash and where residents are struggling to come to terms with their new arrivals.

2008 – Winner: Audience Award Winner – ZagrebDox Festival

2008 – Winner: Amnesty International Human Rights Film Award

"Highlights the beauty that can come from acceptance while not forgetting how far there is still to go... Highly recommended" Jessica Hopkins, The Observer

Men of the City (2009 ~ 58 mins)

In his latest film, Marc Isaacs chronicles the fate of several Londoners from various social classes during the economic crisis. Using footage from the seemingly eternally rain-sodden British capital, as well as an impressive and audacious use of music and sound, Isaacs fluidly balances sensitive portraits of people striving to find their place in the swarming City of London.

2010 – Winner: Krakow Film Festival - Silver Horn

"No one has ever made a film about the City that is so singular, so evocative and so human" The Times

Disc extras being finalised with the Director

Release date: October 2010

The Girl from Hunan
(Xiangnu xiaoxiao)
A film by Xie Fei, China 1986.

The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected honour tradition and to tow the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man...

Though set in turn-of-the-century China, The Girl from Hunan deliberately parallel the state of affairs in the China of the late 1980s.

"Vividly recreates an era long gone, yet somehow still very close" Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Release date: TBC