presents:

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Kdo chce zabít Jessii?)

VÖ-Datum: 25/08/2025

Medium: Blu-ray

Region: A/B/C

VÖ-Preis: £19.99

Beziehungsstatus: gehört mir

Synopsis

From the director of Three Wishes for Cinderella, Václav Vorlíček’s Who Wants to Kill Jessie? is a delightfully demented, absurdist 1966 comic book fantasy that is unlike anything else in the Czech New Wave – and presages the DC and Marvel comic book franchises by several decades.

Jessie, a comic book heroine, springs into real life after a scientist invents a serum to banish bad dreams. This inadvertent experiment unleashes chaos as Jessie and her comic book compatriots demand – in speech-bubbles – “Freedom for dreams!”.

Co-written by Miloš Macourek (Happy End), Who Wants to Kill Jessie? is a deliriously off-the-wall gem. Exploding with ingenuity and wild ideas, and intertwining real and pop-fantasy worlds, the film audaciously subverts the fledgling superhero genre into a bold piece of political satire, and a daring defence of the unfettered imagination.

Special Features

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Kdo chce zabít Jessii?, 1966) presented from a new HD transfer by the Czech National Film Archive.
Directive (Direktiva, 1955): An early comic short film by Václav Vorlíček presented from a new HD transfer.
A Projection Booth commentary with Mike White, Jim Laczkowski and Jonathan Owen.
Those Crazy Czechs: An expansive new video essay by film historian Michael Brooke on Czech comedies.
Booklet with new writing by author and Czech cinema expert Jonathan Owen.
New English subtitle translation.
World premiere on Blu-ray.
Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).

Technical Specs

Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
Running time: 80 minutes
Original aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Video: BD50 / 1080p / 24fps
Audio: 2.0 Dual Mono LPCM
Discs: 1
Black and white
Region A/B/C (Region Free)

Review

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