Slovak Film Archives on DVD and Blu-ray

Signum Laudis (1980) is a unique film not only in the context of works by Martin Hollý but also within the history of Slovak cinema. In a tragic story of the fanatically obedient soldier Hoferik, the film deals with the cruelty and senselessness of war, and on the occasion of the infamous anniversaries of World War I end and World War II beginning, the Slovak Film Institute releases this special film on DVD and Blu-ray in its digitally restored and remastered version, in multiple language versions (English, German, French, Russian and Italian subtitles). At the same time, the film will be available for festival screenings in a new DCP print with English subtitles.

In addition, Fourty-four Mutineers (Štyridsaťštyri, 1957) by Paľo Bielik was released to mark the same occasion, on a DVD with multiple language versions (English, German, Russian and Italian subtitles), and will be, as well, available soon on a digital print.

Both films, as well as further DVD releases are available for preview in the Pavilion 133 / International Village at Marché du Film, and for purchase via the film store of the Slovak Film Institute Klapka.sk.

Following the successful first-ever release of Slovak classics with the Second Run DVD (The Sun in a Net by Štefan Uher, 1962) in August 2013, Juraj Jakubisko´s masterpiece Birdies, Orphans and Fools (Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni, 1969), which belongs to the great artworks of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement, is underway to be released by the end of June 2014 for the UK market.

published: 07.05.2014
updated: 09.05.2014