Criterion Collection

Marketa Lazarova/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD

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$5 - $10, All, Criterion Collection, Drama, Foreign Films, Frantisek Velecky, Frantisek Vlacil, Harry Studt, Ivo Paluch, Josef Kemr, Karla Chadimova, Magda Vasaryova, Magdalena Vasaryova, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Over $10, Pavla Polaskova, Under $5, Vladimir Mensik, Vladislav Vancura, Vlastimil Harapes, Zdenek Liska

In it's home country, Frantisek Vlacil's MARKETA LAZAROVA 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 Vancura, 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. Vlacils 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 it's inventive widescreen cinematography, editing, and sound design, MARKETA LAZAROVA is an experimental action film.