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• **FIRST PRESSING LIMITED EDITION SLIPCASE - strictly limited to 2000 copies**
• Old Czech Legends (Stare povesti ceske, 1953) and The Czech Year (Spalicek, 1947) presented from 4K restorations by the Czech National Film Archive.
• Introductions to both films.
• The Puppets of Jiri Trnka documentary.
• Archival Czech newsreels on Trnka.
• The Hand (Ruka, 1965): Trnka's renowned animated short film.
• Badly Painted Hen (Špatně namalovaná slepice, 1963): the acclaimed animated short film by co-screenwriter of Old Czech Legends and regular Trnka collaborator, Jirí Brdecka.
• Trailers.
• Booklet with writing by experts on Czechoslovak cinema Peter Hames and Jonathan Owen.
• New and improved English subtitle translation.
• Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).
• World Premieres on Blu-ray.

July 27

Oh my God, I’ve been wanting this for what feels like years now! Really hope this will include at least some of his excellent shorts too but the fact that we’re getting Old Czech Legends on Blu-Ray already makes this a release of the year contender!

Amazing news, never thought we'd see any Trnka aside from the odd extra but here we are! Slight shame they're not doing a small box set though as I would've loved to have seen them include a few others, namely A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Emperor’s Nightingale and Prince Bayaya.

Hopefully some shorts will be included though. I'd especially like to see The Cybernetic Grandmother.

Years ago on this forum, members justifiably praised Kino for their commitment to releasing comprehensive boxsets of silent films. Second Run deserves the same praise for this set. Absolutely thrilled that this is coming out, and it'll be a day one purchase.

First post updated with specs, cover art and release date