to Vienna Blu-ray

' to Vienna' Director: Karel Kachyňa (1966) Second Run Blu-ray | 4K restoration | Region Free | Czech & German w/ English subtitles |  Staff Pick 

An examination of the complexities of war which focuses on the 'common people' caught up in conflict, neither heroes or evil. In the final days of WW2 a young woman who has been widowed by the Nazi occupiers is forced to bring two German soldiers through a forest to the Austrian border.

Special features include:
- It's Not Always Cloudy (1949): Karel Kachyňa’s rediscovered feature-length semi-documentary graduation film, co-directed by Vojtěch Jasný
- Projection Booth audio commentary with film historians Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger
- 20-page booklet featuring a new essay on the film by author and Czechoslovak cinema specialist Jonathan Owen
- Image gallery - a collection of rare Hungarian lobby cards.