Comedy rarity “Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus” is getting a UK Blu-ray Steelbook release in June
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On June 5th you’ll be able to pick up this comedy gem, featuring two special Monty Python episodes filmed for German TV, along with additional rarely seen material.
Pre-orders are live now. This isn’t listed as an exclusive, so we’ll add more links as we get them.
Pre-order: HMV
Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy episodes produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 and were shot entirely on film and mostly on location in Bavaria, with the first episode recorded in German and the second recorded in English and then dubbed into German. These shows have been upgraded to high definition after extensive restoration from the original source material by Jonathan Wood, overseen by Terry Gilliam.
The two shows feature classic songs and sketches, including The Lumberjack Song and Silly Olympics, and Terry Gilliam’s magnificent animations, with never-before available bonus features including Monty Python doing the Fish-Slapping Dance on a 1971 German entertainment programme Euroshow; as well as Monty Python’s Montreux Special (1971) – unseen for nearly thirty years, this collection of sketches from the first two series showcases some newly performed exclusively for this special. Experience a fresh take on The Gascooker sketch and Blackmail amongst others, as well as The Ministry of Silly Walks, and the Exploding Version of ’The Blue Danube’.
- Euroshow 1971
- Mountain Stream Outtake (Outtake from Show 1)
- Swimming Lessons with Arthur Lustgarten (Outtake from Show 2)
- Montreux Special
- Restoration Demo
