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Marijka the Unfaithful

19347.0 / 1073 min

Drama

Overview

“The Carpathians are medieval!” one character bellows, and this tale of the tree-chopper Petro, his faithless wife Marijka, and various scheming businessmen and foremen does little to disprove the assertion. Interestingly filmed with a nonprofessional cast recruited from the region, Faithless Marijka may have a neorealist conceit, but its direction is utterly futuristic, filled with the lightning-fast montage techniques and low-angle camera of the Soviet avant-garde (along with its invigorating agitprop).

Cast

Anna Škelebejová

Andrej Kišť

Jaksiňa Djordjajová

Mikola Skira

Mikola Cjubik

Michal Derbak

Moses Adler

Hana Maria Pravda

Sylvie Havránková

Robert Ford

Ivan Olbracht

Leopold Horešovský

Jindřich Adolf

Vasil Stolyc

Icko Kahan

Petro Šuhaj

Crew

Bohuslav Martinů

Original Music Composer

Vladislav Vančura

Director

Ladislav Kolda

Producer

Václav Hanuš

Assistant Camera

Ladislav Kolda

Production Manager

Karel Nový

Screenplay

Ivan Olbracht

Story

Josef Zora

Sound

Jiří Weiss

Assistant Director Trainee

Bedřich Feuerstein

Production Design

Jiří Slavíček

Editor

Jiří Weiss

Camera Trainee

František Škvor

Conductor

Ivan Olbracht

Screenplay

Jaroslav Blažek

Director of Photography

Willy Ströminger

Still Photographer