Birds, Orphans and Fools

hot immediately after the Soviet invasion of 1968, Jakubisko's long-repressed feature focuses on the the three-way relationship that develops between two male friends and a female Jewish orphan as they travail a world ravaged by death and destruction, a war-torn landscape of bombed-out churches and wrecked homes occupied, it seems, only by themselves and birds. Their triangular relationship recalls Truffaut's Jules et Jim, but Jakubisko's heroes have no romantic ideals - they are all orphans, products of an absurd world in which their parents killed each.

With references from Shakespeare to Rabelais, key episodes in Slovak history, and recalling the anarchic air of Vera Chytilová's DAISIES, Jakubisko's exhilerating, experimental film is turn playful, surreal and increasingly nightmarish.

The second in a series of essential Slovak classic films to be released by Second Run DVD.

Extras
New HD master; Booklet essay + more TBC

Actors: Philippe Avron, Magda Vásáryová, Jirí Sýkora, Míla Beran, Mikulá Ladizinský

Audio Languages: Slovak, Slovakian, Slovene

Duration: 78 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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