Spalovac Mrtvol (Movie) HD Remastered Edition

[Machine Translation] The strangest and most terrifying world of Czech cinema you ve never seen come, let s find hope in despair. Step into the world of the Czech New Wave, known as the Golden Sixties"! Released for the first time in Japan in an HD digital remastered edition! Winner of the Grand Prix at the 5th Sitges-Catalonia International Film Festival. A masterpiece of dark comedy that exposes the horrors of totalitarian ideology. It depicts the transformation of an ordinary person into a perpetrator through beautiful yet eerie expressionist imagery. A masterpiece that will go down in film history for its portrayal of The Banality of Evil." This controversial film was banned in its home country of the Czech Republic and could not be screened until 1990, when the communist regime fell. Prague, Czechoslovakia, on the eve of World War II. Karel Kopffurkingl, a cremator at a funeral home, is an ordinary man who loves his family, but, influenced by his pro-Nazi friends and the social climate, he is eventually driven toward the shocking Final Solution"... Includes an explanatory booklet and postcard. Bonus features include the trailer for the special screening!

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もっとも奇妙で恐ろしい、あなたの知らないチェコ映画の世界―さあ、絶望に元気を出そう。「黄金の60年代」と呼ばれたチェコ・ヌーヴェルヴァーグの世界へ! 国内初パッケージ、HDデジタル・リマスター版にてリリース! 第5回シッチェス・カタロニア国際映画祭グランプリ受賞。全体主義イデオロギーの恐怖を暴き出す傑作暗黒コメディ。いたって普通の人間が加害者となっていく姿を美しくもおどろおどろしい表現主義的な映像で描きだす。「悪の凡庸さ」を切り取った映画史上に残る傑作。本国チェコで公開禁止となり、共産主義政権が倒れる1990年まで上映できなかった問題作。――第二次大戦前夜のチェコ、プラハ。葬儀社で火葬人を務めるカレル・コップフルキングルは家族を愛する平凡な男性だが、親ナチスの友人や社会情勢に影響され、やがて衝撃的な「最終解決策」へと駆り立てられていく・・・。解説リーフレット&ポストカード封入。特典映像には特集上映予告編を収録!