Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Three early shorts by director Jaromil Jireš: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960)
- New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames
- Interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava Schallerová and Jan Klusák
- Alternate 2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the music’s origins
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Jana Prikryl
New cover based on an original poster by Dot Graphics
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Three early shorts by director Jaromil Jireš: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960)
- New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames
- Interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava Schallerová and Jan Klusák
- Alternate 2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the music’s origins
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Jana Prikryl
New cover based on an original poster by Dot Graphics
Cast
- Jaroslava Schallerová
- Valerie
- Helena Anyžová
- Elsa/Grandmother/Mother
- Petr Kopriva
- Eaglet
- Jirí Prýmek
- Polecat
- Jan Klusák
- Gracián
- Libuše Komancová
- Servant girl/Novice
- Karel Engel
- Ondrej the Coachman
- Alena Stojáková
- Hedvika
- Otto Hradecký
- Landowner
- Martin Wielgus
- Young father
- Jirina Machalická
- Flower girl
- Michaela Klocová
- Young girl
- Zdenka Kovárová
- Young girl
- Bedriška Chalupská
- Young girl
- Robert Nezval
- Musician
Credits
- Director
- Jaromil Jireš
- Produced by
- Jirí Becka
- Based on the novel by
- Vítězslav Nezval
- Screenplay
- Ester Krumbachová
- Screenplay
- Jaromil Jireš
- Dialogue
- Jirí Musil
- Cinematography
- Jan Curík
- Edited by
- Josef Valušiak
- Production design
- Ester Krumbachová
- Art director
- Jan Oliva
- Costume design
- Eva Lackingerová
- Music
- Luboš Fišer
- Conductor
- František Belfín
- Makeup
- Ladislav Bacílek
- Sound
- Emil Poledník
- Set designer
- Josef Calta
- Props
- Vera Flašarová
- Camera operator
- Oldrich Hubácek
- Props
- Stépánka Koloušková
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