Presented from a new 4K restoration which premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, Second Run present for the first time in the UK Alfréd Radok's remarkable and powerful contemplation of evil, Distant Journey.
Made in 1948, just a few short years after the atrocities it strives to process, Distant Journey is one of the first feature films to address the Holocaust, and was the debut film from the controversial avant-garde visionary of Czech theatre, Alfréd Radok.
Set in the Terezín ghetto as deportations to Nazi extermination camps escalate, Radok's film interweaves the love story of a young Jewish doctor forcibly separated from her Gentile husband, and harrowing documentary footage. With striking, expressionist imagery, Distant Journey presents a harrowing account of the Nazi horrors of the recent past and remains a stark, still-relevant warning from history.
Extras
Distant Journey (Daleká cesta,1949) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.
All-new Projection Booth commentary with Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger
The Opening of the Wells (Otvírání studánek, 1960): Alfréd Radok's acclaimed short film inspired by a poem of Miloslav Bure and set to Bohuslava Martin's cantata of the same name.
Butterflies Don't Live Here (Motýli tady ne ijí, 1958) - a documentary film by Miro Bernat about the Terezín ghetto.
Trailer
Booklet featuring new writing on the film by author and film historian Jonathan Owen
New and improved English subtitle translation.
Region free Blu-ray
Original soundtrack in 1.0 Mono / 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit)
