DVD
Valerie and her week of wonders = Valerie a týden divu
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Czech, with English subtitles.
Performers
Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek, Jan Klusák.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; three early shorts by director Jaromil Jires: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The hall of lost footsteps (1960) ; new interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames ; interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava Schallerová and Jan Klusák ; alternate 2007 psycho-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the music's origins ; new English subtitle translation.