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Martyrs of Love (1967)
Directed by Jan Němec
Overview
This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.
Length 71 minutes
Actors
Petr Kopriva | Marta Kubišová | Hana Kuberová | Jan Klusák | Karel Gott | Vladimír Preclík | Josef Konícek | Denisa Dvořáková | Zdeněk Fanta | Pavel Bosek | Milon Novotny | Alena Čepková | Olga Světelská-Váňová | Jiří Mucha | Marta Kadlečíková | Inka Zemánková | Eva Olmerová | Jiří Verberger | Pavel Vitoch | Ferdinand Havlík | Eugen Jegorov | Karel Pilar | Laco Déczi | Jan Hammer | Miroslav Vitous | Laco Tropp | Jaroslav Boťa | Milan Tesař | Zdeněk Bruderhans | Jitka Cerhová | Ivana Karbanová | Jiří Kovařík | Helena Anýzová | Antonín Bahenský | Vlasta Bambulová | Jana Dufková | Libor Fára | Karel Greif | Šárka Horáčková | Miroslav Hotový | Pavel Jaderník | Marie Jančová | Jiřina Jandová | Herbert Kisza | Zdena Korčáková | Jan Krumbach | Ela Květoňová | Jana Lauferová | Jana Lichtenbergová | Jana Mašíková | Emanuel Pejška | Irena Pejšková | Antonin Prazak | Jiří Reichel | Zuzana Schnöblingová | Marie Simínová | Marie Sixtová | Miloš Šafránek | Jana Ševčíková | Zdena Skvorecka | Václav Vodák | Karel Volf | Roman Weiss | Lindsay Anderson