MARKETA LAZAROVÁ

Czechoslovakia / 1967 / 162 min. / Black & White

tribute to František Vláčil

written by: VLADISLAV VANČURA - ROMÁN MARKETA LAZAROVÁ

screenplay: FRANTIŠEK PAVLÍČEK, FRANTIŠEK VLÁČIL

directed by: FRANTIŠEK VLÁČIL

dir. of photography: BEDŘICH BAŤKA

music: ZDENĚK LIŠKA

editor: MIROSLAV HÁJEK

sound: FRANTIŠEK FABIÁN

dramaturgy: JOSEF TRÄGER

art director: OLDŘICH OKÁČ

costume designer: THEODOR PIŠTĚK, ONDREJ BREZOVSKÝ

production: FILMOVÉ STUDIO BARRANDOV - TS ERICH ŠVABÍK-JAN PROCHÁZKA

executive producer: JOSEF OUZKÝ

cast: MAGDA VÁŠÁRYOVÁ, JOSEF KEMR, FRANTIŠEK VELECKÝ, NAĎA HEJNÁ, KAREL VAŠÍČEK, IVAN PALÚCH, MARTIN MRÁZEK, PAVLA POLÁŠKOVÁ, MICHAL KOŽUCH, ZDENĚK KRYZÁNEK.

In the mid-13th century the sons of the robber knight Kozlík capture the son of the Saxon count, Kristian, drawing the attention of the King to themselves. Lazar, a yeoman, joins them, but almost pays for it with his life. His daughter, Marketa, promised to God, is abducted by Kozlík's son Mikoláš and raped. After the royal sheriff, Pivo, slaughters almost all Kozlík's family, Marketa returns home, but is rejected by her father. The cruelty of the life of instinct, which as yet respects no order, changes into hope only at the close. Marketa, like Kozlík's daughter Alexandra, with whom Kristián has fallen in love, brings new life into the world.