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The Fifth Rider is Fear : --A Pátý Jez̧dec je Strach

DVD - 2006 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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"Newly remastered from a restored print from the National Archives"--container.
Special features: onscreen introduction by Andrew Horton of Kinoeye; Facets Cine-notes collectible booklet; scene selection.
Miroslav Machacek, Olga Scheinpflugova, Jiří Adamira.
An aging Jewish doctor is forbidden to practice medicine in Prague during the Nazi occupation. He is employed in a warehouse as a clerk, cataloguing confiscated Jewish property. When a partisan is wounded, the doctor reluctantly agrees to treat him. The doctor hides him in his run-down apartment buiding as he sneaks through the black-market underworld of Prague in search of morphine to ease the man's pain, ever fearful of informant neighbors and vigilant authorities. Within a historical context, director Zbyněk Brynych creates a thinly-disguised allegory about contemporary communist Czechoslovakia that is rich in atmosphere and dark in tone. The expressionist cinematography and stellar performances make this lost masterwork an unforgettable viewing experience.
DVD; widescreen.

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