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War of the Worlds: Next Century (Region Free)

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War of the Worlds: Next Century (Region Free)

War of the Worlds: Next Century (Region Free)

War of the Worlds: Next Century

In a radical reworking of the H.G. Wells classic, War of the Worlds: Next Century, tells the story of Iron Idem (celebrated Polish actor Roman Wilhelmi), a television host, who finds himself contending with a Martian invasion, whose takeover involves collaborating with the state and manipulating the populace through a media apparatus made up entirely of fake news... Drawing as much on George Orwell and 1984 as on Wells’ novel, Pior Szulkin’s prescient allegory of state and media control is a dark sci-fi that uses classic noir tropes to tell its sinister story.

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • 2K restoration supervised by Piotr Szulkin and sound engineer Nikodem WoƂk-Ɓaniewski, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
  • Uncompressed mono PCM audio
  • Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic - a documentary on War of the Worlds cinematographer Zygmunt Samosiuk and his work, featuring interviews with Szulkin and Andrzej Wajda among others (Adam Lewandowski, 2012, 29 mins)
  • PRL - Polish People's Republic Post-Apocalyptic Parables - a new video essay by Dobrotka Więckiewicz exploring Szulkin's rejection of the science-fiction label (2023)
  • Labyrinth - Jan Lenica’s award-winning short film about a flying man who visits an art nouveau metropolis (1963, 15 mins)
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        War of the Worlds: Next Century

        In a radical reworking of the H.G. Wells classic, War of the Worlds: Next Century, tells the story of Iron Idem (celebrated Polish actor Roman Wilhelmi), a television host, who finds himself contending with a Martian invasion, whose takeover involves collaborating with the state and manipulating the populace through a media apparatus made up entirely of fake news... Drawing as much on George Orwell and 1984 as on Wells’ novel, Pior Szulkin’s prescient allegory of state and media control is a dark sci-fi that uses classic noir tropes to tell its sinister story.

        SPECIAL FEATURES

        • 2K restoration supervised by Piotr Szulkin and sound engineer Nikodem WoƂk-Ɓaniewski, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
        • Uncompressed mono PCM audio
        • Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic - a documentary on War of the Worlds cinematographer Zygmunt Samosiuk and his work, featuring interviews with Szulkin and Andrzej Wajda among others (Adam Lewandowski, 2012, 29 mins)
        • PRL - Polish People's Republic Post-Apocalyptic Parables - a new video essay by Dobrotka Więckiewicz exploring Szulkin's rejection of the science-fiction label (2023)
        • Labyrinth - Jan Lenica’s award-winning short film about a flying man who visits an art nouveau metropolis (1963, 15 mins)
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