Marketa Lazarová

“Putting the ‘dark’ back in the Dark Ages.”

One of the robber Kozlík's sons, Mikoláš (František Velecký), takes a young German of noble blood hostage during a raid, and the clan waits for the German king's answer. František Vláčil follows Mikoláš as he rides to their neighbor Lazar to demand a pact, and comes away empty-handed. So he carries off Lazar's daughter Marketa (Magda Vášáryová) the night before she is to become a nun.