Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave.

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Jan S. Kolár

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" ::selection{background:#EAB308;color:#000}h2{color:#C2410C;margin-top:2.5rem}h3{color:#0E7490}a{color:#EAB308;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted #EAB308}a:hover{color:#fff;border-bottom:1px solid #fff} Picture, if you can, a film that feels less like projected celluloid and more like a copper engraving left to oxidise in a forgotten attic—its images flaking away even as they sear themselves onto your retina. The Arrival from the Darkness (1921) is that engraving, a Czech Gothic feve..."
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Karel Hloucha, Jan S. Kolár
Slovakia

1931 · IMDb 7.1


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