Champagne Rose is Dead (Limited Slipcover Blu-ray)

Limited-edition slipcover with artwork

Jason, a burnt-out secret agent always accompanied by his silent sidekick "Skuggis", decides that the spy business is boring and will probably lead to his death. He resigns from the CORPO organization, avoids his boss's assassination attempt, and retires to a Dutch farm where his mistress Binji and three servants are waiting. But Jason is drawn into the evil data and media conglomerate MOB, which engages in surveillance and fabricated illusions. Jason wants to leave it all behind, but is condemned to a life aboard airplanes and in airport lounges.

The Swedish-American director and composer Calvin Floyd is a truly cool, unfairly forgotten hero in Swedish film history. He insisted on making genre films, especially horror, (but always with a message) in a Sweden obsessed with social realism and Ingmar Bergman. Naturally, he was rarely appreciated by the critics of the time.

His cinematographer and producer was Tony Forsberg, cinematographer on films such as Exponerad (1970), Dagmars heta trosor (1971), Flossie (1974), Korpen flyger (1984), Söndagsbarn (1992) and B-camera operator on Fanny and Alexander (1982). Francis Matthews is known for his title role in the TV series Paul Temple in the 60s and 70s, as well as British horror films such as Frankensteins blodiga hämnd (1958), Corridors of Blood (1958) and Dracula – mörkrets furste (1966)

The film has been restored by the British Film Institute

Bonus material

Poster and image gallery

Calvin Floyd poster gallery

Trailer

In Search of Calvin Floyd – Video essay by Rickard Gramfors (Klubb Super 8)