Marketa Lazarová
- Thu, Oct 1
- Fri, Oct 2
- Sat, Oct 3
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: František Vláčil Run Time: 166 min. Release Year: 1967 Language: Czech
Starring: František Velecký, Ivan Palúch, Magda Vášáryová, Pavla Polášková, Vlastimil Harapes
We’re screening the brand new 4K restoration of František Vláčil’s Marketa Lazarová starting on October 1st!
In its native land, the film 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.