Czechmate

Epic, expansive, affectionate and deeply passionate, CzechMate In Search of Jiri Menzel is the definitive work on the Czechoslovak New Wave. This extraordinary documentary film, a labour of love by archivist and filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has a depth and scale unparalleled in the study of the Czechoslovak cinema.Jiri Menzel s debut film Closely Observed Trains (Ost e sledované vlaky, 1966) made a profound impression on young film student Dungarpur. Years later, he invited Menzel to meet him in a Prague café - and so began a conversation and a friendship that has culminated in this epic, seven-hour film that not only explores the deceptively whimsical comic films of Jiri Menzel, but all of the artists who strove to make films that whispered subversion and rebellion often at the risk of their livelihood, or even their lives.Filmed over a period of seven years, Dungarpur and his team interviewed filmmakers, actors, crew members, writers, historians and critics who had been touched by the New Wave - including V ra Chytilová, Milo Forman, Vojt ch Jasný, Ivan Passer, Ken Loach, Juraj Jakubisko, Jaromír ofr, Andrzej Wajda, Du an Hanák, tefan Uher, Jan N mec, and Miroslav Ond í ek among them.CzechMate In Search of Ji í Menzel reminds us of the genius, originality and bravery of the artists of the Czech Miracle , one of the most important and influential movements in the history of cinema.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSCzechMate In Search of Jiri Menzel (2018) presented from a director-approved HD transferJiri Menzel short films:Prefabricated Houses (Domy z panel , 1960)Our Mr. Foerster Died (Um el nám pan Foerster, 1962)Image galleryBooklet featuring extracts from the diaries of filmmaker Shivendra Singh DungarpurRegion free Blu-ray (A/B/C)5.1 DTS-HD Master AudioWorld premiere on Blu-ray