Polish maverick filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski (POSSESSION) had one of his films banned and another halted three-quarters into production and was asked to leave the country twice... and also invited back twice. In his debut THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT, a young man witnesses the murders of his mother, wife, and child by the German occupation and joins the resistance movement. When a man is shot and captured in his place, he discovers that the man's pregnant wife is a double for his wife. As he tries to redeem himself by helping her, he starts to reflect on his marriage and disturbing things he did not want to acknowledge.
In THE DEVIL, a young man captured for an attempted assassination of the King is freed by a mysterious man who then shows him that his family and friends have betrayed him. The cost of his revenge may be his soul.
In ON THE SILVER GLOBE, astronauts land on another planet hoping to start civilization over again only to make the same mistakes. When another astronaut arrives years later to investigate, he finds himself held up by the people as a living god with all that entails when he cannot answer their questions about life and death. An epic with a notoriously-troubled production history, the film's year-long production was halted in 1977, finished in 1986, and released in 1988. A delirious precursor to DUNE (Jodorowsky's and Lynch's).
REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI: THREE FILMS Blu-ray specs:
- Disc One - The Third Part of the Night (1971):
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
- Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English Subtitles
- "Michael Brooke on THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT" interview
- Disc Two - The Devil (1972):
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
- Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English Subtitles
- "Michael Brooke on THE DEVIL" interview
- "Lukasz Żulawski on THE DEVIL" interview
- Disc Three - On the Silver Globe (1988):
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
- Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English Subtitles
- Audio Commentary by film historian Daniel Bird
- "Adam Żulawski on Jerzy Żulawski" interview with the author's grandson
- "Return to the Silver Globe" locations visit with cinematographer Andrzej Jaroszewicz
- "The Cinematography of ON THE SILVER GLOBE" documentary by film historian Daniel Bird
- "Lunar Futurism" documentary by film historian Daniel Bird
- Disc Four - Bonus Disc:
- "Escape to the Silver Globe" documentary by Kuba Mikurda
- The first 3,000 copies come in a limited edition hardbound slipcase.
- Comes with a 60-page collector’s book featuring "The Enigmas of Żulawski", a new essay by Philip Kemp; "Unidentified Film Object", Daniel Bird’s revised and edited notes for a presentation on the production history and restoration of "On the Silver Globe"; a new essay by Andrew Graves; a transcription from a 1979 samizdat journal criticising the official Polish coverage of "On the Silver Globe"; and an archival letter written by the crew of "On the Silver Globe".
