Marketa Lazarová
In its native land, František Vláčil’s Marketa Lazarová has been hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made; for many U.S. viewers, it will be a revelation. Based on a novel by Vladislav Vančura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence. Vláčil’s approach was to re-create the textures and mentalities of a long-ago way of life, rather than to make a conventional historical drama, and the result is dazzling. With its inventive widescreen cinematography, editing, and sound design, Marketa Lazarová is an experimental action film.
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interviews with actors Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and costume designer Theodor Pištěk
- 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 František Uldrich, in which director František Vláčil discusses his filmmaking process
- Interview with Universal Production Partners technical director Ivo Marák about the film’s restoration
- Gallery of storyboards by Vláčil
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: Essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vláčil
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Special Features
- New, restored 4K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interviews with actors Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and costume designer Theodor Pištěk
- 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 František Uldrich, in which director František Vláčil discusses his filmmaking process
- Interview with Universal Production Partners technical director Ivo Marák about the film’s restoration
- Gallery of storyboards by Vláčil
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: Essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vláčil
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Cast
- Josef Kemr
- Old Kozlík
- Naďa Hejná
- Kateřina
- František Velecký
- Mikoláš
- Ivan Palúch
- Adam
- Pavla Polášková
- Alexandra
- Michal Kožúch
- Lazar
- Magda Vášáryová
- Marketa
- Harry Studt
- Old Count Christian
- Vlastimil Harapes
- Young Christian
- Zdeněk Kryzánek
- Captain Beer
- Zdeněk Řehoř
- Sovička
- Vladimír Menšik
- Bernard
- Zdeněk Štěpánek
- Narrator
Credits
- Director
- František Vláčil
- Produced by
- Josef Ouzký
- Based on the novel by
- Vladislav Vančura
- Screenplay
- František Pavlíček
- Screenplay
- František Vláčil
- Cinematography
- Bedřich Baťka
- Film editing
- Miroslav Hájek
- Music
- Zdeněk Liška
- Art director
- Oldřich Okáč
- Artistic collaborator
- Theodor Pištěk
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