Cover art for the Sitges award winner
Juraj Herz’s The Cremator is coming to DVD courtesy of the fiends at Dark Sky. Released in 1969, it went on to win Best Actor and Best Cinematography at the 1972 Sitges Film Festival.
The Cremator tells the tale of Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrusinsky), who works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs. No one is safe from his quest for salvation, not even his own family.
The disc streets on March 31st.
Source: Dark Sky Films
