Trivia / Marketa Lazarová

• Enforced Method Acting: Vláčil not only had the clothes painstakingly researched and hand-sewn, he had the cast live in the forest for the two years of shooting so they could get into the 13th century mindset.
• Fake Nationality: That's, of course, if we forget that it is highly problematic to speak of an established nationality in the High Middle Ages.
  • Czech actor Vlastimil Harapes plays German count Kristian.
  • The two main characters Marketa and Mikoláš are Czechs played by Slovak actors Magdaléna Vášáryová and František Velecký.

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