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Movie: The Girl on the Broomstick
Saxana, a young incompetent witch facing 300 years detention, plans to escape to the human world for 48 hours and causes mayhem with her magic powers and questionable judgment. (1972 Czechoslovakia 76 minutes.) [more inside]
Movie: Diamonds of the Night
[TRAILER] Two Jewish boys (Ladislav Jánský, Antonín Kumbera) escape from a Nazi death-camp convoy and go wild and hungry. [more inside]
Movie: Ikarie XB 1
Awesome 1963 Czech scifi film directed by Jindrich Polák about a spaceship crew bound for Alpha Centauri, based on an early Stanislaw Lem novella. It's been called an influence on 2001 (we know Kubrick saw it) and Star Trek. It includes eerie encounters with alien spacecraft, fantastic sets and costumes, a wonderful experimental electro-acoustic score by Zdeněk Liška (who later scored Jan Svankmeyer shorts), and the 2nd best outer space dance scene ever, complete with casual drug-sniffing. Available in a beautiful 2016 restoration from Second Run DVD with neat extras, and currently up at YouTube. [more inside]
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