LUNACY - DVD

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Horror
• Plot: The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (Alice, Little Otik) deliriously combines live action, stop-motion animation, kinky sex, Euro-trash violence, black comedy and lots of frisky meat puppets. In (supposedly) nineteenth-century rural France, a young man named Jean Berlot becomes caught up in the nightmarish world of a mysterious, decadent Marquis (Jan Triska, The People vs. Larry Flynt): orgiastic black masses, 'therapeutic' funerals and an asylum with a smorgasbord of macabre treatments and tarred-and-feathered doctors. Described by Svankmajer himself as a 'philosophical horror film', Lunacy is loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade.
• Cast: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Martin Huba, Jaroslav Dusek, Pavel Nový, Stano Danciak, Jirí Krytinár, Katerina Ruzicková, Iva Littmanová, Katerina Valachová, Josef Kaspar, Miroslav Navrátil, Jirí Maria Sieber, Ctirad Götz, Milan David, Michael Hoffbauer, Karel Herman, Renata Sátková, Vladimír Míka, Milan Borovicka, Lubos Doksanský, Vladimír Hodr, Josef Polásek, Hana Dvoráková, Vaclav Jezek, Frantisek Polata, Jirina Kutilová, Karel Davidek, Jan Svankmajer, Edgar Allan Poe, Marquis de Sade
• Director: Jan Svankmajer
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Zeitgeist Films
• Media Format: Movie