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Section: Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
Marketa Lazarova (1967)
This historic ballad is set in the mid-13th century, when robber knights attacked travelers on royal roads, while Christianity still fought against paganism, and human life had little value. Love, however, was still passionately potent. The title heroine is the virtuous girl Marketa Lazarová, predestined to a monastery. She's forced, however, to become the lover of a violent young man, Mikoláš, the son of the irreconcilable rival her clan, Kozlík of the Roháč's. Her love for Mikoláš causes Markéta to renounce her love for God, to whom she was originally promised.
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
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| Year | 1967 |
| Duration | 162 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | Czech |
| Subtitle | English |
| Directed by | František Vláčil |
| Screenplay | František Pavlíček, František Vláčil |
| Director of Photography | Bedřich Baťka |
| Music | Zdeněk Liška |
| Edited by | Miroslav Hájek |
| Contact | Národní filmový archiv |
Biography
A film director and screenwriter. He studied aesthetics and art history. His work combined artistic sentiment, drama and poetry. He made his debut with The White Dove (1960). Collaboration with the writer V. Körner gave us the dramas Marketa Lazarová (1967) and Adelheid (1969). He also shot Shadows of a Hot Summer (1977).