Distant Journey Blu-Ray

Distant Journey, made in 1948, just a few years after the horrors it attempts to process, is one of the first feature films to address the subject of the Holocaust and was the debut film of the controversial avant-garde visionary of Czech theater, Alfréd Radok.

Radok's lively experimental film is set in the Bohemian town of Terezín when Nazi transports to the German concentration camps began in earnest, and mixes documentary film with a fictional love story between a Jewish woman and her non-Jewish husband. Distant Journey is a mixture of raw expressionist intensity and analysis, providing a gripping portrayal of the horrors of Nazism in the recent past. The film remains a powerful and ever-relevant warning from history. CONTENTS OF THE BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION

Distant Journey (Daleká cesta, 1949) is presented in a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original material from the Czech National Film Archive.

Brand new commentary from Projection Booth with Mike White, Samm Deighan, and Kat Ellinger

The Opening of the Wells (Otevření studánky, 1960): Alfréd Radok's acclaimed short film inspired by a poem by Miloslav Bure and featuring Bohuslava Martin's cantata of the same name as the soundtrack.

Butterflies Don't Live Here (Motýli tady ne žijí, 1958) – a documentary film by Miro Bernat about the ghetto in Terezín.

Trailer

Booklet with new texts about the film by author and film historian Jonathan Owen

New and improved English subtitle translation.

Region-free Blu-ray

Original music in 1.0 Mono / 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit)