Wednesday, 11 July 2018, 6:30 pm
Cinematheque Centre Manila
855 T.M. Kalaw St. Ermita, Manila.
Admission is free and will be on a first come, first serve basis. Subject to capacity.
As part of the Czech Movie Gems Film Festival, The Film Development Council of the Philippines in partnership with The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Manila invites you to the screening of “Marketa Lazarova“.
About the film:
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.
