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THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR: Deaf Crocodile Plots Cold War 60s Spy Flick For 4K March Release

Next in line for Deaf Crocodile’s 2022 wave of restored re-releases of classics will be the 4K premiere of Jean-Louis Roy’s Cannes pot-stirrer, The Unknown Man Of Shandigor. The company recently joined Cinémathèque suisse in fully restoring the 1967 cold war super-spy thriller, and is now poised to release the film in Swiss-French with English subtitles on VoD from March 1 in association with Grasshopper Films. The Unknown Man Of Shandigor is billed as “a marvelous and surreal hall of mirrors, part-Dr. Strangelove, part-Alphaville, with sly nods to British TV shows like ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Doctor Who’.” It centers on a mad herd of rival spies desperate to get their hands on what crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz’s (famed Chilean cult actor Daniel Emilfork – The City Of Lost Children, The Devil’s Nightmare) latest invention: a device to “sterilize” all nuclear weapons. Also starring are legendary French singer Serge Gainsbourg […]

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Deaf Crocodile Shells Out A Trio Of Restored Russian And Finnish Classics Re-Releasing In The U.S. This Summer

Deaf Crocodile and Seagull Films are pairing up to release a trio of celebrated classic titles, all new 4K and 2K restorations, in select theaters, on digital and blu-ray starting this summer, and first on the roster brings us a trailer for Aleksandr Ptushko’s 1956 epic, Ilya Muromets (The Sword And The Dragon) which you can view above. The move is part of an ongoing “Russian Fantastika” collection, with Deaf Crocodile’s partner Grasshopper Films shepherding digital and OCN/Vinegar Syndrome for Blu-ray release. The other two titles set to arrive this year, in collaboration with Russia’s Mosfilm, are Ptushko’s mystical 1959 Finnish/Soviet co-production, Sampo (The Day The Earth Froze), restored in Finland by KAVI National Audiovisual Institute, and director Karen Shakhnazarov’s 2K-restored 1988 Kafkaesque satire, Zerograd (Zero City). “For us today restoration is more of a cultural action than a commercial matter. But I think that it is very important that the […]

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