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Barnabáš Kos Case, The (UK Import BLU-RAY) Coming to Our Shelves April 2025
Barnabáš Kos Case, The (UK Import BLU-RAY) Coming to Our Shelves April 2025

Barnabáš Kos Case, The (UK Import BLU-RAY) Coming to Our Shelves April 2025

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UK Import, Blu-Ray is Region Free, should play on any Blu_Ray player.

Barnabáš Kos, a meek and modest triangle-player in a state orchestra finds himself unfathomably promoted to Musical Director. Now drunk with power, the once timid Kos turns into a poised, commanding peacock and seeks to transform the orchestra to suit his own agenda and inflated vision...

Peter Solan (Before Tonight is Over) crafts an absurdist, darkly funny Kafkaesque satire of a corrupt system that rewards mediocrity and breeds petty dictatorship. Openly criticising the practices of socialist Czechoslovakia at the time, its wry exposure of hypocrisy, sycophancy and the corrupting influence of power remains, unsurprisingly, fresh and relevant even today.

The Barnabáš Kos Case is presented from a new 2K restoration by the Slovak Film Institute. Our region-free Blu-ray also includes a selection of archival short films, including Peter Solan's powerful 1974 film Nemecka - plus a booklet with new writing on the film by Czechoslovak cinema expert Jonathan Owen and filmmaker Peter Strickland.

Extras:

  • The Barnabáš Kos Case (Prípad Barnabáš Kos, 1964) presented from a new 2K restoration by the Slovak Film Institute.
  • Invincibility of Absurdity: An introduction to the film by Rastislav Steranka, Director of National Cinematographic Centre, Slovak Film Institute.
  • Nemecká (1974): Peter Solan's powerful documentary short, with original music by Zdeněk Liška.
  • Promotion (Postup, 1968): A short film by the renowned Slovak animator and filmmaker Viktor Kubal.
  • Portrait: Jarmila Košťová (1969): A short film on the famous Slovak actor.
  • 32-page booklet with new writing on the film by author Jonathan Owen and filmmaker Peter Strickland.
  • New English subtitle translation.
  • Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-ray.