Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Putting the ‘dark’ back in the Dark Ages.

Cast

František Velecký, Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, Pavla Polášková, Vlastimil Harapes

Overview

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.