Alfréd Radok’s visionary film Distant Journey (1949) was one of the first features to address the Holocaust.
Their daughter Hana loses her job as a doctor soon after the Nazis seize power but her marriage to a gentile colleague enables her to remain in town while the rest of her family is deported to the Terezin Ghetto. But reprieve is short and their romance soon turns into a struggle for survival when her husband is arrested and Hana too is deported to Terezin. Using expressionist imagery interspersed with documentary footage, director Alfred Radok presents a highly imaginative and stylistically innovative study of the impact of Nazi oppression on a mixed race couple in the darkening atmosphere of anti-Semitism. The director's novel approach brought the film international acclaim (New York Film Critics prize for Best Foreign Film in 1951), but official suspicion in Czechoslovakia where the film was banned after a very limited release and not seen again for 40 years.Alfred Radok, Czechoslovakia 1949 /104 min, English subtitles / DCP Cast: Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejča, Viktor Očásek, Zdeňka Baldová
This 4K digital restoration premiered at the the Berlinale Classics in 2020.
The film will screen in four Picturehouse cinemas across the UK on Sunday 29th January to mark this year's International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
12:00 | Crouch End Picturehouse , London | Book now 12:00 | Hackney Picturehouse, London | Book now 12:00 | The Cameo, Edinburgh | Book now 14:30 | Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool | Book now
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