A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš (The Joke) is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
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Product Details
Actors: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva
Directors: Jaromil Jire
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
DVD Release Date: June 30, 2015
Run Time: 76 minutes
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Three early shorts by director Jaromil Jireš: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Steps (1960)
New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames
Interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava Schallerová and Jan Klusák
Alternate 2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, and a new video piece on the music’s origins
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Jana Prikryl
Cast & Crew
Jaroslava Schallerová Valerie
Helena Anyzková Actor
Petr Kopriva Eaglet
Jiri Prymek Actor
Jan Klusak Priest
Technical Credits
Jaromil Jires Director,Screenwriter
Jan Curik Cinematographer
Lubos Fiser Score Composer
Ester Krumbachova Art Director,Screenwriter
Jozef Valusiak Editor
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