Rent Distant Journey (1948)
3.6 of 5 from 58 ratings
1h 41min
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- Synopsis:
- Set in the Terezin ghetto as deportations to Nazi extermination camps escalate, Distant Journey is the powerful debut film of Czech avant-garde theatre director, Alfred Radok. With striking, expressionist imagery, the film interweaves the love story of a young Jewish doctor forcibly separated from her Gentile husband, and harrowing documentary footage. Made just a few years after the Second World War, Distant Journey was one of the first feature films to address the Holocaust, and remains a stark, still-relevant warning from history.
- Actors:
- Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejca, Viktor Ocásek, Zdenka Baldová, Eduard Kohout, J.O. Martin, Josef Chvalina, Anna Vanková, Jirí Plachý, Sasa Rasilov, Jirí Spirit, Rudolf Deyl, Zdenek Hodr, Karel Jelínek, Jaroslav Seník, Frantisek Vnoucek, Frantisek Kreuzmann, Josef Toman, Sona Danielová, Eva Kavanová
- Directors:
- Alfréd Radok
- Producers:
- Milos Mastnik
- Writers:
- Erik Kolár, Mojmir Drvota, Alfréd Radok
- Aka:
- Daleká Cesta / Hitler's Inferno
- Studio:
- Second Run
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Czechoslovakia
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/05/2020
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- Czech LPCM 1.0 Mono, German LPCM 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Two celebrated short films:
- The Opening of the Wells (Alfred Radok, 1960) - the Laterna magica film of the great Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's famous cantata 'Otvirani studanek'
- Butterflies Don't Live Here (Miro Bernat, 1958) - a film about the children of the Terezin ghetto
- A newly-recorded Projection Booth audio commentary with Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger
