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VHS NTSC Item#:CZE022-1
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"The Cow"
1994
Directed by Karel Kachyna
A brilliant achievement
from Czech filmmaker Karel Kachyna: the parable about a simple man on a
remote mountain top who cares for his ailing mother until he is forced to
sell their single cow in order to buy her morphine. The mother dies
anyway, but is replaced by a house maid, who in turn is replaced by
another woman. This enigmatic fable-like film evokes a sense of hope
amidst the most mundane events of an ordinary life in an extraordinary
achievement of post-Velvet Revolution Czech cinema. Czech with English
subtitles. 86 minutes.
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