Second Run DVD are delighted to announce that our next release will be Andrzej Munk’s landmark 1957 film Eroica on August 6.
A celebrated landmark of Polish cinema, the award-winning Eroica has been restored from its original materials and is presented in a new high-definition transfer.
Andrzej Munk’s ‘heroic symphony’, set during WWII, presents two sardonic tales of courage and valour which aim to demystify the archetypal image of heroism. The first movement focuses on a seemingly feckless and selfish man and his ironic route to finally taking up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. The second movement is set in a POW camp whose Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their number.
Both tales converge to create a blackly comic and perceptive satire; a provocative, powerful, and potent anti-war poem considered amongst the most subversive films of the period.
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