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 Sobocinski and sound engineer Nikodem Wolk-Laniewski, 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)