The Cremator DVD, 1968

This has been described as a 'surrealist-inspired horror' and an expressionist fantasy. It's certainly one of the darker films to come out of the Czech New Wave. Set in the 1930s, it's based around the character of Kopfrkingl, the cremator of the title, a man obsessed with his job to the point of insanity, believing that cremating people is a way to free them for the afterlife, an attitude that allies him well with the occupying Nazi party.

From the same company, this strange and disturbing film tells a terrifying tale of the owner of the crematorium in the early stages of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovaki... more >

From the same company, this strange and disturbing film tells a terrifying tale of the owner of the crematorium in the early stages of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. His discovery that his wife has ' impure ' blood sets him on a murderous spree. Black humour mixes uneasily (but highly effectively) with the horror. < less

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