27.9.2008
First screening of Bathory outside the Czech and Slovak Republics

Juraj Jakubisko’s new feature Bathory was finally screened abroad – on the closing night of the FantasticFilm Fest in Lund, Sweden on 27 September 2008.

Juraj Jakubisko attended the festival as official guest of its organizers. The Lund festival is very specific in its focus on films that stimulate and shift the limits of human imagination. The bulk of the films parttaking in this festival are doing so in their Swedish premiere.

Bathory was screened on Saturday evening as the last picture of the entire event. Two other Juraj Jakubisko’s films – An Ambiguous Report about the End of the World (1997) and Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) were also screened at the festival in Jakubisko’s mini-retrospective.

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