Marketa Lazarová (1967)

	Josef Kemr	Old Kozlík
	Ivan Palúch	Adam
	Vásáryová. Magda	Marketa
	Frantisek Velecký	Mikolas

Director

Frantisek Vlacil

Producer

Josef Ouzky

Writer

Vladislav Vančura

Cinematography

Bedrich Batka

Musician

Zdenek Lizka

Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. 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 Mikolás to pressure his neighbor Lazar to join him in war. Persuasion fails, and in vengeance Mikolás 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.

Edition Details
Edition	The Criterion Collection
Release Date	6/18/2013
Screen Ratio	Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1)
Subtitles	English
Audio Tracks	PCM [Czech]
Layers	Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Price	$9.00
Links	Marketa Lazarová at Core for Movies IMDB TheMovieDb.org

• New interviews with actors Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes (39:59) and costume designer Theodor Pištěk (27:02) • New interviews with film historian Peter Hames (17:53) and journalist and film critic Antonín Liehm (9:38) • In the Web of Time, a short documentary from 1989 by cinematographer František Uldrich, in which director František Vláčil discusses his filmmaking process (21:24) • Interview with Universal Production Partners technical director Ivo Marák about the film’s restoration • Gallery of storyboards by Vláčil (9:43) • Trailer (2:40) • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vláčil.