Marketa Lazarová
Movie • 1967 • Drama
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Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik prepares for the wrath of the King, and sends Mikolás to pressure his neighbor Lazar to join him in war. Persuasion fails, and in vengeance Mikolás abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa, just as she was about to join a convent. The King, meantime, dispatches an army and the religious Lazar will be called upon to join hands against Kozlik. Stripped-down, surreal, and relentlessly grimy account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity.
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Several animals were killed for this film.
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A dove is cut with a knife and shown to be bleeding. A snake is stabbed in the spine with a knife. A mouse is crushed to death in a man's hand. A goat is beheaded (although we are not explicitly shown the beheading, just the head afterwards). All of these scenes are real animals with no special effects or animatronics. Czechoslovakia had/has no laws preventing animal killings in film, although the British Film Board had forbidden such scenes in 1937, so some of these scenes were cut for distribution of this film in UK and elsewhere. The 2013 Criterion release (USA) includes the original animal killings as the director intended.
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