Poland, 1957 / 1959 / 1960
Length / Main features: 341 minutes
Length / Special features: 45 minutes
Sound: Original mono (restored)
Black & White
Original aspect ratios: 1.33:1 full frame / 1.56:1, 1.66:1 /16.9 anamorphic
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English On/Off
PAL DVD9 x 4
Region 0
RRP: £39.99
Release Date: 12th March 2012
Second Run DVD 064
Night Train:
"Kawalerowicz's masterwork... visually magnificent"
Bright Lights Film Journal
"A superbly taut thriller, constantly challenging its audience... the tension is unbearable and well handled at all times" thirtyframesasecond
Innocent Sorcerers:
"Compelling lead performances and the vivid portrait of a newly restless milieu" Time Out
"This is an existentialist film – not a fairy tale – and it's dense with allegorical meaning: a critique of Marxist and Catholic culture of the time. It's also a portrait of sexual politics in Poland at the start of the 60s" Renata Murawska
Eroica:
"A darkly comic, intelligent, and unorthodox chronicle... a clever, engaging, and insightful satire on duty, courage, and heroism" Strictly Film School
"An impetuous, seminal anti-war rumination... Munk's visual savvy and screwball daring are unique" Village Voice
Goodbye, See You Tomorrow:
"Polish cinema's best-kept secret" Michał Oleszczyk
"Drawn with much cool irony... it does succeed in capturing a sense of place and of summer days in a sleepy town (all beautifully caught in Jan Laskowski's photography). It's the details, in fact, that one remembers... one that stays in the mind" Monthly Film Bulletin
• Presented from superb new high-definition restorations of the films, supervised and approved by cinematographers Jan Laskowski, Jerzy Wójcik and director Andrzej Wajda.
• Newly filmed, exclusive interview with director Andrzej Wajda.
• About Night Train: an extract from a documentary on Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
• Andrzej Munk's prize-winning short film A Walk in the Old Town of Warsaw (Spacerek staromiejski).
• New and improved English subtitle translations.
• 4 x 16-page booklets featuring a new essays by film critic and author Michał Oleszczyk, author and film scholar Dr César Ballester, and writer and film historian Michael Brooke.
Andrzej Munk's acclaimed final film Passenger (Pasazerka) and Jerzy Kawalerowicz's superb Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów) are also available on Second Run DVD.