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Marketa Lazarov 1967 is a Czechoslovak historical film directed by Frantiek Vlil. It is an adaptation of the novel Marketa Lazarov 1931 by Vladislav Vanura. The film takes place in an indeterminate time during the Middle Ages, and tells the story of a daughter of a feudal lord who is kidnapped by neighbouring robber knights and becomes a mistress of one of them.

Two brothers, Mikol and onearmed Adam, along with a small group of men, ambushing a wagon and men traveling on a country road in the middle of winter. The attackers massacre most of the travelers, one escapes, Mikol chases and captures one and his men capture another. The man who escaped, a Saxon aristocrat, turns out to be the new Bishop of Hennau and a close ally of the local king. The two captives are the Bishops son and his assistant. When Mikol returns to the site of the ambush, he finds a group of scavengers, led by Lazar, a neighbor of Mikols, stripping the dead. Mikol first impulse is to kill Lazar, but spares him after Lazar prays to Christ to forgive Mikol. Mikol returns to his village where his father, Kozlk, is the clan patriarch. Kozlk becomes furious at Mikol for allowing a man to escape, for bringing home two captives and for allowing Lazar to live. When Mikol explains that he took the captives for ransom, his father asks him if he intends to travel to Saxony to claim the ransom or if Mikol intends to invite the Saxons to bring their army to their small clan village.In the next scene, Kozlk, chased by wolves, is running through deep snow back to the village. It turns out the king had summoned him to the capital. When Kozlk arrived, the kings captain had attempted to take Kozlk into custody, but Kozlk attacked the captain and fled. The narrator explains the captain was previously a merchant who brewed his own beer. Therefore, people call him Captain Pivo Beer. The king then orders the Captain to take a regiment to rescue the Bishops son and to punish Kozlk and his family. Anticipating the attack, the family abandons its village and moves deeper into the forest. As they pack, Mikol visits Lazar to request an alliance with him against the king. He suggests the two clans could ambush and massacre the regiment. Marketa now enters the story. She is Lazars virginal, nave daughter, destined by her father to become a nun. Marketa is horrified to see her fathe

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