O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

The survivors of a claustrophobic, subterranean world in ruins are pacified by Soft (Jerzy Stuhr, Camera Buff), who engineers a mass collective dream of escape through means of a mythical vessel, The Ark… A dark vision existing somewhere between Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and John Carpenter’s Escape from New York, Piotr Szulkin’s O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization is one of the great dystopian films. Masquerading as both works of science fiction and horror, Szulkin's satirical, surrealistic apocalypse-themed films are Polish cinema's best-kept secret. 

SPECIAL FEATURES

• 2K restoration supervised by Piotr Szulkin, cinematographer Witold Sobociński and sound engineer Nikodem Wołk-Łaniewski, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK

• Uncompressed mono PCM audio

• Audio commentary by Michael Brooke (2023)

• Retrofuturism - Interview featurette with production designer Andrzej Kowalczyk on creating the world of O-Bi, O-Ba (2023)

• Cages - Miroslav Kijowicz's award-winning short film about a guard and a prisoner, freedom and captivity (1967, 8 mins)

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork

Year: 1985
Cert: 15
Format: Blu-ray
Region: ABC
RAD031BD
EAN: 5060974680610
Release date: 23/09/23