Marketa Lazarová

Directed by František Vláčil

With František Velecký, Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, Pavla Polášková and Vlastimil Harapes

Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.