Digitally restored classic Bloody Lady at Lumière Festival
The re-release of Viktor Kubal’s Bloody Lady (1980), that was digitized and restored by the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute, will take place at the 9th Lumière Festival. The film will be screened within the section Archival treasures and curiosities, that offers unique restored archive films from all over the world.
Animated film Bloody Lady tells a story of crime and love, inspired by the historical legend of Elizabeth Báthory, the bloody countess of Čachtice. The eternal conflict between good and evil is captured against the backdrop of a romantic love story with comic and tragic elements.
"The Bloody Lady is an example of screen writing mastery and precise dramaturgic composition despite the reduced imagery and limited animation the director Viktor Kubal has the skill to pace suspense and play the audiences emotional strings. Well observed elements of melodrama together with Kubal´s natural affinity for parody turned this film into an original synthesis of the two genres. Inevitably a comparison comes to mind with another master of horror (and it´s parody) Alfred Hitchcock.“ Rudolf Urc
Slovak nomination for the Oscar bid is The Line
The Line by Peter Bebjak continues the successful path that started at Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 where it received the Best Director Award. Since then, it has broken box office records in domestic cinemas and now is trotting the festival circuit.
The Line narrates a story of Adam Krajňák, the head of the family and also boss of a gang of criminals smuggling cigarettes across the Slovak-Ukrainian border. The failure of one of the transports triggers an avalanche of consequences that compels him to question his own boundaries, none of which he had planned on crossing. Until now.
The Line also participates in the European Film Promotion projectScreenings of Oscar® Submitted Films during the American Film Market.
