Marketa Lazarová
(DVD)

Based on a novel by Vladislav Vančura.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1967.

Special features: Disc 1: New high-definition digital film restoration; Trailer; New English subtitle translation. Disc 2: In the web of time (short documentary from 1989 by cinematographer František Uldrich, in which director František Vláčil discusses his filmmaking process); Peter Hames (interview with the film historian about Marketa Lazarová); Antonín Liehm (interview with the journalist and film critic about director František Vláčil); Marketa's actors (interviews with actors Magda Vá̌sáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes); Theodor Pištěk (interview with the costume designer); Storyboards (gallery of storyboards by František Vláčil); On the restoration (technical director Ivo Marák details restoration of the film); New English subtitle translation. Booklet features essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vláčil.

Production design, Stanislav Pavlík, Vladislav Rada ; costumes, Theodor Pištěk ; music by Zdeněk Liška ; edited by Miroslav Hájek ; set design by Oldřich Okáč ; cinematography, Bedřich Baťka.

Josef Kemr, Nada Hejná, Jaroslav Moučka, František Velecký, Karel Vašíček, Pavel Landovský, Ladislav Považay, Ivan Palúch, Martin Mrázek, Václav Sloup, Pavla Polášková, Alena Pavlíková, Václav Kovařík, Petr Sedlák, Michal Kožúch, Zdeněk Lipovčan, Magda Vá̌sáryová, Harry Studt, Vlastimil Harapes, Zdeněk Kutil, František Nechyba, Karel Bradáč, Zdeněk Kryzánek, Zdeněk Řehoř, Vladimir Menšík, Karla Chadimová ; narrated by Zdeněk Štěpánek.

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 Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; PCM mono.

In Czech and German with optional English subtitles.