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Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Kdo chce zabít Jessii?) (UK Import BLU-RAY)

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Kdo chce zabít Jessii?) (UK Import BLU-RAY)

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From the director of Three Wishes for Cinderella, Václav Vorlíček’s Who Wants to Kill Jessie? is a delightfully demented, absurdist 1966 comic book fantasy that is unlike anything else in the Czech New Wave - and presages the DC and Marvel comic book franchises by several decades.

A scientist creates a serum designed to calm the dreams of restless cows, but tests it out on her husband who has been dreaming about the adventures of comic book heroine Jessie. Disaster ensues when the drug causes the characters from her husband's dreams to manifest in the real world...

Co-written by Miloš Macourek (Happy End), Who Wants to Kill Jessie? is a deliriously off-the-wall gem. Exploding with ingenuity and wild ideas, the film audaciously subverts the fledgling superhero genre whilst offering a subtle but healthy dose of satire aimed at communist oppressors.

Blu-ray Special Features:
• Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Kdo chce zabít Jessii?, 1966) presented from a new HD transfer of best existing materials by the Czech National Film Archive.
• Directive (Direktiva, 1956): An early comic short film by Václav Vorlíček presented from a new HD transfer.
• A Projection Booth commentary with Mike White, Jim Laczkowski and Jonathan Owen.
• A video essay by film historian Michael Brooke on crazy Czech comedies.
• Booklet with new writing by author and Czech cinema expert Jonathan Owen.
• New English subtitle translation.
• World premiere on Blu-ray.
• Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).

Technical details:
• Language: Czech
• Subtitles: English
• Running time: 80 minutes
• Original aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Video: BD50 / 1080p / 24fps
• Audio: 2.0 Dual Mono LPCM
• Discs: 1
• Black and white
• Region A/B/C (Region Free)