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Czechoslovakia, 1965
Length: 74 minutes
Special features: 34 minutes
Sound: 2.0 Dual Mono LPCM (48k/16-bit)
Black and white
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English

Blu-Ray: BD25 / 1080 / 24fps / Region ABC
Blu-Ray RRP: £19.99

Release Date: 07 May 2018
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Presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials, Second Run presents a special Blu-ray edition of one of its most enduringly popular titles – Ivan Passer’s Intimate Lighting.

This wonderfully subtle comedy of provincial life is the debut film of a great director and one of the signature works of the Czech New Wave. Ivan Passer’s film concerns the dreams of two musician friends, one of whom, having left their small hometown to become successful, returns to visit the other who stayed behind to become a local music teacher.

Focussing on the humour of the ordinary and routine and stunningly shot by Miroslav Ondříček (A Blonde in Love, If..., Amadeus), the film shows true affection and understanding for all its characters to become that very rare thing in comedy – a work of great originality and universal acceptance.

One of the most important films of the Czech New Wave, and which was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time, Intimate Lighting is a beautifully observed drama of the everyday.

Presented from a brand new 4K restoration, this region-free Blu-ray special edition includes Passer's rarely-seen 1964 short film A Boring Afternoon (Fádní odpoledne) and a filmed interview with director Ivan Passer.


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Special Features

• Presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.

• Filmed interview with director Ivan Passer.

• Ivan Passer’s 1964 debut short film A Boring Afternoon (Fádní odpoledne) presented from a new HD transfer from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.

• Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Trevor Johnston, and an essay by critic Phillip Bergson.

• New and improved English subtitle translation.

• Region free

• Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio

• World Premiere on Blu-ray

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Directed by Ivan Passer

Story and screenplay - Ivan Passer, Jaroslav Papoušek,
Václav Šašek
Cinematography - Miroslav Ondříček, Josef Střecha
Music - Antonín Dvořák, W. A. Mozart, Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec
Editor - Jiřina Lukešová
Art Director - Karel Černý
Sound - Adolf Böhm

Cast
Karel Blažek - Bambas
Zdeněk Bezušek - Petr
Věra Křesadlová - Stepa
Jan Vostrčil - Grandfather
Jaroslava Štědrá - Marie
Vlastimila Vlková - Grandmother

 

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A DVD edition of Intimate Lighting is also available.

Ivan Passer was co-writer on Miloš Forman's Audition and
co-writer and assistant director on A Blonde in Love which
are also available from Second Run .


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Appreciation

1970 National Society of Film Critics, USA /
Winner: Special Award

 

"[One] of the ten films which have most affected me" Krzysztof Kieślowski

"Ivan Passer's film is a small one but pristine. It is sincere, no pretending. I consider it as one of the best Czech films"
Jiří Menzel

"Intimate Lighting is one of the best European films of the 1960s" Roger Ebert

"It loses none of its charm, to age or to repeated viewing. It is one of those very special movies that does not so much reveal new secrets each time you see it as confirm a justness and good humour that was never hidden" New York Times

"A moving, sympathetically directed study of belonging, place and the pleasures of friendship... Wistful, gently comic and affecting" Time Out

"This 1965 gem stands as one of the finest works of the short-lived Czech New Wave... Passer has forged something funny and rare: a genuine comedy of melancholy" Chicago Reader

 

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