Marketa Lazarova
- IMDb link: 0063278
- IMDb rating: 7.8 (6,720 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Romance, History
- Director: Frantisek Vlácil
- Cast: Magda Vasaryova, Josef Kemr, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka and others
- Release date: 24 Nov 1967
- Release year: 1967
- Runtime: 162 minutes
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Keywords: brother sister incest, middle ages, female nudity, animal sacrifice, lord, village, knight, character name as title, pagan, central europe
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A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
Mikolas and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlik. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik prepares for the wrath of the King, and sends Mikolas to pressure his neighbor Lazar to join him in war. Persuasion fails, and in vengeance Mikolas abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa, just as she was about to join a convent. The King, meantime, dispatches an army and the religious Lazar will be called upon to join hands against Kozlik. Stripped-down, surreal, and relentlessly grimy account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity.
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