Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Putting the ‘dark’ back in the Dark Ages.
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
- Release Date: 1967-11-24
- Runtime: 2h 46min
- Production Company: Filmové studio Barrandov
- Production Country: Czechoslovakia
- Director: František Vláčil
- Writers: František Pavlíček, František Vláčil.
