Marketa Lazarová (1967)

"Putting the ‘dark’ back in the Dark Ages."

Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.

František Vláčil 166 min Czechoslovakia

DirectorFrantišek Vláčil

CastFrantišek Velecký, Ivan Palúch, Magda Vášáryová, Michal Kožuch, Pavla Polášková, Vlastimil Harapes

CountryCzechoslovakia

Duration166 min