The Ear (Ucho)

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


In Karel Kachyna's remarkable The Ear, a Communist Party official and his wife find their home under surveillance and riddled with listening devices planted by his own bureau, and a harrowing night of dread and paranoia ensues

One of the most courageous and innovative films of its time, fearlessly referring to many taboo subjects of the Stalinist era, The Ear was banned by the Czech authorities, and remained unseen for twenty years. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS



* The Ear (Ucho, 1970) presented from a brand new restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive
* A filmed introduction to the film by writer and critic Peter Hames
* The Projection Booth commentary with Mike White, Ben Buckingham and Martin Kessler
* The Uninvited Guest (Nezvaný host, 1969): a short film by Vlastimil Venclík
* Booklet featuring writing on the film by Peter Hames, author and producer Steven Jay Schneider and journalist and critic Graham Williamson
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
* Original soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono 16-bit LPCM audio
* World premiere on Blu-ray





REVIEW


A boldfaced, haunting satire in the vein of Juraj Herz s wicked, legendary The Cremator, Karel Kachyna s Czech New Wave classic is as arresting as early Cassavetes and as paranoid as The Conversation, which came four years later

--Ucla

By far the best of the Czech movies banned when Dub ek was toppled in 1969. the bitterest and most scathing account of what it takes to get ahead in a Communist bureaucracy

--Time Out

One of the most politically incendiary films to emerge from the Czechoslovak New Wave

--East European Film Bulletin

Actors: Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opocenský, Miroslav Holub, Lubor Tokos, Karel Kachyna

Duration: 95 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

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