Marketa Lazarová
Brutal, gorgeous, chilly, earthy—this medieval epic by František Vláčil, one of the greatest directors of the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960s, deserves a spot among the major historical dramas. In pagan Bohemia, an innocent, sheltered young woman is abducted by a rough tribe, where she's forced to marry the wild young Mikoláš. But the love that, against the odds, begins to unite the couple may not survive the tumult of internecine battles between their clans.
by Joule Zelman
