Today at the festival
Monday 14 September
18H00 - Cinéma Méliès - Montreuil - 20 years shorts of strange
19H30 - Cinéma Méliès - Montreuil
In the presence of the team.21H30 - Cinéma Méliès - Montreuil
Marketa Lazarová
- Marketa Lazarová
- 1967.
- Black and white.
- 159 mn.
- Original version with English subtitles.
- Directed by : Frantisek Vlácil.
- Produced by : Josef Ouzký.
- Screenplay by : Frantisek Vlácil, František Pavlíček.
- With : Magda Vášáryová, Josef Kemr, František Velecký.
- Country : Czechoslovakia.
- Genre : Historical.
Czechoslovakia, circa 12th century. During a harsh winter, robbers strip Geman travelers and kidnap the Prince Kristion that they decide hold hostage. Quickly though, their neighbor lords start fighting each others.
It took Frantisek Vlacil 4 years to be able to adapt Vladislas Vancura's novel to the screen and to be able to transcribe again all its intensity in its themes, its narrative and on a figurative aspect as well. Called The Greatest Czech Film in 1994, this mystical and remarkable saga matches Tarkovsky's Andrei Roublev, Welle's Macbeth and Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors to which he often compared. Glowing, rare and priceless.
Monday 7 September 2015 - 20:45 - Showroom 300 - Presented by Ben Wheatley
