Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (Deluxe Limited Edition)

ADELA HAS NOT HAD SUPPER YET(ADLA JET NEVEEELA), 1978, NFA, 102 min. Within that bizarre flower lies a huge enigma, muses Nick Carter, Americas Greatest Detective (Michal Doolomansk), called to Prague to investigate the case of a missing dog and instead winding up in the jaws of a giant carnivorous plant controlled by his old nemesis, The Gardener (Milo Kopeck), in Czech director Oldich Lipsks beloved cult hit. Inspired by the Nick Carter dime novel detective stories created by John R. Coryell, ADELA is an irresistible slapstick combination of 19th century James Bond gadgetry, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Blake Edwards circa THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN and Louis Feuillade silent serials like FANTOMAS and JUDEX. In other words, a sheer delight. The second major comic hit from director Lipsk and writer/animator Ji Brdeka after their musical western spoof LEMONADE JOE (1966), ADELA features much of the same cast as their third and final satire THE MYSTERIOUS CASTLE IN THE CARPATHIANS (1981) including leads Doolomansk, Kopeck and the wonderful Rudolf Hrunsk as a Pilsner-drinking sausage-eating police commissar who invariably saves the day. A loving tribute to the bygone days of old-world Prague, the film is literally filled with surreal, poetic moments and machinery a balloon chase on a flying bicycle, a solar rifle, flowering vines serving tea with the best by far being the Audrey-like man-eating plant designed and animated by the legendary Jan vankmajer (who also contributed to MYSTERIOUS CASTLE IN THE CARPATHIANS several years later). Look for famed Czech actress Olga Schoberov (LEMONADE JOE, WHO KILLED JESSIE?, Hammers THE VENGEANCE OF SHE) in a brief but memorable role as cabaret dancer Irma the Cat. Beautifully restored by the Nrodn filmov archiv, Prague, for release by Deaf Crocodile and Comeback Company. In Czech with English subtitles.

Bonus Features:

• New restoration from the original camera negative and sound elements by the Nrodn filmov archiv, Prague.
• New audio commentary by Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company and Czech film critic and screenwriter Tereza Brdekov
• 60-page booklet including:
  • New essay by film historian and expert on Central & Eastern European cinema Jonathan Owen.
  • New essay by film critic Walter Chaw (Film Freak Central).
  • Excerpts from the book JI BRDEKA: Life-Animation-Magic (2015, Limondov Joe Publishing)
• Four rare Ji Brdeka animated shorts
  • Badly Drawn Hen (patn namalovan slepice / Gallina Vogelbirdae) 1963, 13 min.
  • Foresters Song / To the Forest (Do leska na ekanou) 1966, 9 min.
  • What Did I Not Tell The Prince (Co jsem princi neekla) 1975, 9 min.
  • The Miner’s Rose (Hornkova re) 1974, 8 min.