{"id":991,"date":"2017-09-28T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T09:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=991"},"modified":"2017-09-28T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T09:16:44","slug":"second-run-to-release-vavras-witchhamme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Second Run to release V\u00e1vra&#8217;s WITCHHAMMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_o1p24rw9Yf1rws4l6o1_1280.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-992 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_o1p24rw9Yf1rws4l6o1_1280-300x129.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_o1p24rw9Yf1rws4l6o1_1280-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_o1p24rw9Yf1rws4l6o1_1280-768x330.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_o1p24rw9Yf1rws4l6o1_1280-500x215.png 500w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_o1p24rw9Yf1rws4l6o1_1280.png 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506585780343_32066\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506585780343_32065\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506585780343_32064\">Second Run&#8217;s next release &#8211; on both Blu-ray and DVD formats &#8211; will be Otakar V\u00e1vra&#8217;s WITCHHAMMER on October 30. <\/span><\/b><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506585780343_32081\">A powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule, <i>Witchhammer<\/i>, co-written by Ester Krumbachov\u00e1 (<i id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506585780343_32082\">Daisies<\/i>,<i> Valerie and Her Week of Wonders<\/i>), chronicles a series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch trials, using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil. <\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506585780343_32083\">With echoes of Bergman, Dreyer and Franti\u0161ek Vl\u00e1\u010dil, and with literary antecedents in Arthur\u2019s Miller\u2019s <i>The Crucible<\/i> and Aldous Huxley\u2019s <i>The Devils of Loudon<\/i>, it is a disturbing political fable; and like Ken Russell&#8217;s controversial, expressionistic adaptation of Huxley\u2019s text<i>, The Devils<\/i> (1971) and other films of the period such as Michael Reeves&#8217; <i>Witchfinder General<\/i> (1968) and Michael Armstrong&#8217;s <i>Mark of the Devil<\/i> (1970), it serves as both grim genre film and compelling historical drama.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Run&#8217;s next release &#8211; on both Blu-ray and DVD formats &#8211; will be Otakar V\u00e1vra&#8217;s WITCHHAMMER on October 30. A powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule, Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachov\u00e1 (Daisies, Valerie and Her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=991\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}