From Jindřich Polák, director of the 1963 Czech sci-fi classic Ikarie XB-1, comes another foray into science-fiction with this lesser known but equally impressive feature Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem). But unlike the serious ‘hard’ sci-fi approach of Ikarie , this film is a deliciously demented time-travel romp that manages to be both hilariously silly and impressively ingenious at the same time.
In the near-future, time travel has become a possibility, and a group of neo-Nazi’s hijack a time-ship in order to go back to 1944 to deliver a hydrogen bomb to Hitler and thus secure victory in WWII…
Polák expertly balances the film’s disparate elements to produce a work of immense pleasure which is unpredictable, irreverent, intelligent and wildly funny – and which emerges one of the great undiscovered sci-fi movies of the 1970s.
Blu-ray Special Features
– Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea presented from a new HD transfer from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.
– An all-new Projection Booth commentary with Kat Ellinger, Jonathan Owen and Mike White.
– Original theatrical trailer.
– Booklet featuring a new essay writer and filmmaker Graham Williamson.
– New and improved English subtitle translation.
– World premiere on Blu-ray
– Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
Technical details:
• Feature running time: 96 minutes
• Language: Czech
• Subtitles: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Video: BD25 / 1080p / 24fps
• Audio: 2.0 dual mono LPCM (24-bit)
• Region A/B/C (Region Free)
