Marketa Lazarová
DirectorFrantisek Vlácil
CastsJosef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka, Frantisek Velecký, Karel Vasicek, Ivan Palúch, Martin Mrazek, Václav Sloup, Pavla Polaskova, Alena Pavlíková, Michal Kozuch, Zdenek Lipovcan, Harry Studt, Vlastimil Harapes, Zdenek Kutil, Frantisek Nechyba, Zdenek Kryzánek
Duration165 minutes
GenreDrama, History, Romance
Synopsis
Often proclaimed the greatest Czech film ever made, this dense, hallucinatory medieval epic, pitting clan against clan and Christians against Pagans, is a rush of indelible, high-contrast, black-and-white ’Scope imagery, shot with an ever-prowling camera, edited furiously and restlessly switching between objective and subjective points-of-view.
Trying to keep up with the labyrinthine plot is secondary to giving into the film’s experiential potency, as Vláčil’s painstaking insistence on authentic 13th-century period detail and hardscrabble brutality is raised, by stunning atmospherics inclusive of Zdeněk Liška’s majestic choral-electronic score, to the order of the sublime.
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