
SCREENING
Marketa Lazarová
Saturday, Oct 19, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Part of Directors' Fortnight: 1969
Dir. František Vláčil. 1967, 165 mins. Czechslovakia. 35mm. In Czech and German with English subtitles. Marketa Lazarová adapts a novel by Vladislav Vančura first published in 1931. One of the leading Czech novelists, Vančura was a member of the major experimental art movements of the period and the first chair of the avant-garde Devětsil group. The film concerns the 13th century feud between two pagan clans that have fallen under the dominion of Christian German overlords. One clan has converted to Christianity, and its patriarch has pledged his virginal daughter Marketa (Magda Vasaryova) to a convent; the other, brutish and superstitious, abducts the young woman during a skirmish with its rivals.
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