Marketa Lazarová

Marketa Lazarová
Directed by	František Vláčil
Produced by	Josef Ouzký
Written by	Screenplay: František Pavlíček František Vláčil Novel: Vladislav Vančura
Starring	Magda Vášáryová Josef Kemr František Velecký Naďa Hejná Jaroslav Moučka
Music by	Zdeněk Liška
Cinematography	Bedřich Baťka
Editing by	Miroslav Hájek
Studio	Barrandov Studios
Distributed by	Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Release date(s)	Czechoslovakia: 6 October 1967 United States: 30 August 1974
Running time	162 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Marketa Lazarová is a 1967 Czechoslovak historical film directed by František Vláčil. It is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Vladislav Vančura. The movie takes place in the Middle Ages, and tells the story of a daughter of a feudal lord who is kidnapped by neighbouring robber knights and becomes a mistress of one of them.

Marketa Lazarová was voted the all-time best Czech movie in a prestigious 1998 poll of Czech film critics and publicists.^[1][2]

Theodor Pištěk designed the costumes for the film.

Cast

• Magda Vášáryová as Marketa Lazarová
• Josef Kemr as Kozlík
• Naďa Hejná as Kateřina
• Jaroslav Moučka as Jan
• František Velecký as Mikoláš
• Karel Vašíček as Jiří
• Ivan Palúch as Adam-Jednoručka
• Martin Mrázek as Václav
• Václav Sloup as Šimon
• Pavel Landovský as Smil
• Vladimír Menšík as Bernard
• Jan Pohan as Kornet
• Pavla Polášková as Alexandra
• Alena Pavlíková as Drahuše
• Michal Kožuch as Lazar
• Zdeněk Lipovčan as Jakub

Notes

1. ^ Poll description and results (in Czech)
2. ^ Marketa Lazarová on kfilmu.net (in Czech)

External links

• Marketa Lazarová at the Internet Movie Database
• Marketa Lazarová at České filmové nebe (in Czech)
• Marketa Lazarová at AllRovi