CREMATOR - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Plot: Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of totalitarian ideologies stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologi­cally morbid Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium manager in 1930s Prague who believes fervently that death offers the only true relief from human suffering. When he is recruited by the Nazis, Kopfrkingl's increasingly deranged worldview drives him to formulate his own shocking final solution. Blending the blackest of gallows humor with disorienting expressionistic flourishes — queasy point-of-view shots, distorting lenses, jar­ring quick cuts — the controversial, long-banned masterpiece The Cremator is one of cinema’s most trenchant and disturb­ing portraits of the banality of evil.
• Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský st., Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová, Miloš Vognic, Zora Božinová, Ilja Prachar, Eduard Kohout, Jirí Menzel, Míla Myslíková, Vladimír Menšík, Jirí Lír, Václav Štekl, Helena Anýžová, Jindrich Narenta, Marie Rosulková, Nataša Gollová, Jirí Hálek, Jana Šulcová, Jan Rericha, Oldrich Vízner, Carmen Mayerová, Libuše Pešková, Václav Kotva, Dimitri Rafalsky, Josef Vlcek, Václav Halama, Frantiek Kubícek, Vera Vlcková, Ruzena Vlcková, Jan Kraus, Juraj Herz, Ladislav Fuks, Stanislav Milota, Jaromír Janácek, Zdenek Liska, Frantisek Cerný
• Director: Juraj Herz
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Filmové Studio Barrandov, Bildstörung
• Media Format: Movie