Sinister apparatchik and fierce beastie in Jan Nemec’s brisk, scary, still-pertinent 1966 Czech masterwork The Party And The Guests. Today’s Foreign Region DVD, at The Auteurs’, as always.
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Ah, this photo is awesome. Quite powerfull, inspirational for me, since i play in a band called Apparatchik, and one ex member is known by the nicname: Sinister.