DVD
Marketa Lazarová
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Languages
In Czech and German, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Josef Kemr, Nada Hejná, František Velecký, Ivan Palúch, Pavla Polášková, Michal Kožúch, Magda Vá̌sáryová, Harry Studt, Vlastimil Harapes, Zdeněk Kryzánek, Zdeněk Řehoř, Vladimir Menšík ; narrated by Zdeněk Štěpánek.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (165 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Vladislav Vančura.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1967.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital film transfer ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation ; interviews with actors Magda Vá̌sáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and costume designer Theodor Pištěk ; interviews with film historian Peter Hames and journalist and film critic Antonín Liehm ; In the web of time, a short documentary from 1989 by cinematographer František Uldrich, in which director František Vláčil discusses his filmmaking process ; interview with Universal Production Partners technical director Ivo Marák about eh film's restoration ; gallery of storyboards by Vláčil.