Marijka the Unfaithful
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- Runtime
- 73 mins
“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).
“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
Director
- Vladislav Vančura
Producers
- Ladislav Kolda
Screenwriter
- Ivan Olbracht
- Karel Nový
