28-06-2014

Slovak Classics on Second Run DVD: BIRDS, ORPHANS & FOOLS (1969)

    It is with great pleasure that we announce one of the most radical film of Slovak cinema & 1960s Czechoslovak New Wave  – BIRDS, ORPHANS AND FOOLS (CS, 1969) by Juraj Jakubisko was released at UK’s Second Run.

    Presented in a suberb new HD digital transfer with restored picture and sound, the DVD is the market from June 24, 2014, with a considerable response from the critics:

    “Filled with dazzling, hallucinatory images but suppressed until the Velvet Revolution unlocked the vaults, this is another extraordinary rediscovery of Slovak cinema.”
    MovieMail / by Michael Brooke

    “What an astonishing rediscovery Juraj Jakubisko’s Birds, Orphans and Fools is!”

    The Art Desk / by Tom Birchenough

    The DVD is available:
    on the website of Second Run
    on Amazon
    on MovieMail
    on Zavvi

    For more information visit the website of the Audiovisual Information Centre.