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Bonton Ateliery Zlin
Directed by: Frantisek Vlácil
In its native land, František Vláčil’s Marketa Lazarová 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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Audio Options:
Czech PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Documentary, Restoration Demonstration, Storyboards, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- New interviews with actors Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and costume designer Theodor Pišt?k
- New 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 Frantisek Vlácil discusses his filmmaking process
- Interview with Universal Production Partners technical director Ivo Marák about the film’s restoration
- Gallery of storyboards by Vláčil
- Trailer
- A booklet featuring essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Frantisek Vlácil
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