A comprehensive collection of shorts from acclaimed surrealist filmmaker Jan Svankmajer. Films include: THE LAST TRICK, FOOD, PUNCH AND JUDY, THE FLAT JABBERWOCKY, DIMENSIONS OF DIALOGUE, DOWN TO THE CELLAR and THE OSSUARY
Special features include the first film that Svankmajer worked on - Johannes Doktor Faust (1958), excerpts from Nick Carter in Prague (1977), a French documentary - Les Chimeres des Svankmajer (2001), an interview for Czech TV in 2001, the homage to Jan Svankmajer by the Brothers Quay - The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984) and a trailer for Sileni (Lunacy).
*Disc One*
The Last Trick (1964)
JS Bach - Fantasy in G Minor (1965)
A Game with Stones (1965)
Punch and Judy (1966)
Et Cetera (1966)
Historia, Naturae, Suita (1967)
The Garden (1968)
The Flat (1968)
Picnic with Weissman (1968)
A Quiet Week in the House (1969)
Don Juan (1969)
The Ossuary (1970) (Both versions)
Jabberwocky (1971)
Leonardo's Diary (1972)
*Disc Two*
The Castle of Otranto (1979)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1980)
Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
Down to the Cellar (1983)
The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)
Virile Games (1988)
Another Kind of Love (1988)
Meat Love (1988)
Darkness-Light-Darkness (1989)
Flora (1989)
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)
Food (1992)
*Disc Three - Extras*
Johannes Doktor Faust (1958)
Nick Carter in Prague (1977, excerpts)
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
Les Chimeres des Svankmajer (2001)
Czech TV Interview (2001)
Lunacy trailer (2005)
- Import DVD
- PAL Region 2
- English Subtitles
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