{"id":37883,"date":"2015-08-18T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=37883"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:23:22","slug":"second-run-releases-dragons-return","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/second-run-releases-dragons-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Run releases Dragon’s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second Run<\/a> releases<\/span> Dragon’s Return<\/em><\/a> as its fourth title of the Slovak classics series and presents it to the English-speaking audiences. Eduard Gre\u010dner’s film is following the Second Run DVD titles of Slovak Golden Era The Sun in a Net<\/em><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>Birdies, Orphans and Fools<\/em><\/a> and <\/span>Pictures of the Old World<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most exciting discoveries in all of Slovak cinema, Dragon’s Return<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a ballad of love, revenge and desire. The story is the adaptation of the novella of the same name written by Dobroslav Chrob\u00e1k.\u00a0Gre\u010dner had been dazzled by the book\u00b4s lyrical qualities, but he was also daunted by the challenge of transposing those qualities to film, of rendering visually the interior, \u2018invisible\u2019 realities that the novella captures so poetically.<\/p>\n

In the exclusive Second Run’s interview Gre\u010dner reveals his tough path to the shooting of the film: \u201eThe director Stanislav Barab\u00e1\u0161, to whom I had offered the script, encouraged me with the decisive declaration: \u00b4Only you can film Chrob\u00e1k’s text. \u00b4However the theme of Dragon’s Return was not what the people in charge wanted. They wanted contemporary themes, about the building of socialism. It was very difficult to get support to realise the script. It succeeded under the pretext of ‘putting the treasures of Slovak literature on film’. But this diplomatic pretext was also true. Chrob\u00e1k\u00b4s prose is such a treasure: the lyrical form of the story, minimal in dialogue and rich with the atmosphere of the landscape and the people that I love. I then went through a struggle to give visual form to this suggestive prose text \u2013 simply put, a struggle not to \u00b4spoil\u00b4 its beauty.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

Gre\u010dner struggled with it successfully. His hauntingly poetic film is also an authentic, revealing account of peasant life in a world isolated from history and ruled by superstition \u2013 beautifully realised by Vincent Rosinec\u2019s luminous monochrome cinematography, and enhanced by an award-winning score from Ilja Zeljenka.<\/p>\n

Peter Hames, expert in Czech and Slovak cinematography, describes\u00a0the film\u00a0by the words: \u201cAn intersection between modern art and folk culture… an eternal ballad about the essence of life\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The official release date of the DVD is August 24, 2015. The DVD is presented in HD restoration, with new English subtitles and features a new essay on the film by author and academic Jonathan Owen accompanied by exclusive interview with the director Eduard Gre\u010dner.<\/p>\n

Second Run DVDs are available in stores, through the website of Second Run<\/a> and all the online retailers such as Amazon and Zavvi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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