Marketa Lazarova

Director: Frantisek Vlacil Frantisek Vlacil

Overview

Vladislav Vancura's novel Marketa Lazarova was based on a centuries-old Czechoslovakian legend. The film version concerns itself with a group of pillaging feudal lords. Though they regard themselves as noble knights, these lords are a raping, robbing lot, slaves to the many superstitions that grip their land. Magda Vasaryova plays Marketa Lazarova, whose misadventures begin when she is kidnapped and abused by the "protagonists." Director Frantisek Vlacil spares us nothing in bringing the Vancura novel to the screen, not even a gruesomely convincing public beheading.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/18/2013
UPC:	0715515107112
Original Release:	1968
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Time:	2:45:00
Sales rank:	11,372

Special Features

New interviews with actors Magda Vásáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and Costume Designer Theodor Pistek; ; New Interviews with film historian Peter Hames and Journalist and Film Critic Antonín Liehm; ; In the Web of Time, a short documentary from 1989 by Cinematographer Frantisek Uldrich, in which Director Frantisek Vlácil discusses his filmmaking process; ; Interview with Universal Production Partners Technical Director Ivo Marák about the film's restoration; ; Gallery of storyboards by Vlácil; ; Trailer; Plus: A booklet featuring essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vlácil

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Magda Vasaryova	Marketa Lazarova
Frantisek Velecky	Mikolas
Josef Kemr	Kozlik
Harry Studt	Old Count Christian
Vlastimil Harapes	Young Count Christian
Vladimir Mensik	Wandering Monk Bernard
Karla Chadimova	Prioress

Technical Credits

Frantisek Vlacil

Frantisek Vlacil	Director,Screenwriter
Bedrich Batka	Cinematographer
Miroslav Hajek	Editor
Zdenek Liska	Score Composer
Oldrich Okac	Set Decoration/Design