THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set New visual essay narrated by

New visual essay narrated by Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company

Fascinating compilation by Bohumil Veselý of behind-the-scenes footage from Czech Silent films shot between 1918-1929 (including several by Kolár) and assembled in the 1950s

One of the first great divas in Hungarian film and music

and two legendary missing cosmonauts

“The magic of time weaves together apparently unrelated events

THE PIED PIPER & Jiří Barta Shorts - 2-Disc (Standard Edition) Multi-Disc Set New visual essay narrated byTHE PIED PIPER (KRYSA), 1986, Czechoslovakia, 53 min. Director Ji Bartas stop motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half Jan van Eyck. The money obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their