Interview with Juraj Herz In a revealing interview carried over from the DVD, director Herz talks frankly about why he chose to adapt Grin's novel, how he differed from his fellow Czech filmmakers of the day, and the technical issues of having an actress play a dual role. MPD has been diagnosed almost exclusively in America, so perhaps the communist state could not accept the implication of it crossing the iron curtain? Ever since then I was coming back essentially as a foreigner. Optional English subtitles kick on by default, and, as expected, are considerably sharper than those on the DVD. He is among the legends of Czechoslovak cinematography.
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