Frantisek Vlâcil’in, 18. yüzyıl Bohemya ormanlarında geçen, iddialı ve çok katmanlı ortaçağ epiğinin teması, paganizmden Hıristiyanlığa geçiştir. Filmde, masum, manastıra bağlı klan liderinin önder kızının (Magda Vâsâryovâ), vahşi pagan savaşçısı Mikolos Kozlik’e (Frantisek Veleck) esir düşüşü ve cinsel sömürüye maruz kalışı anlatılır.

Marketa Lazarová

A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home burned down a century ago, but was rebuilt from scratch. The miller inherited much of his knowledge about the land, water, and a building's stability from generations of family experience. His reputation for finding water and predicting when a structure might collapse have come to the attention of the Inquisition -surely he must be in league with the Devil.