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Marijka the Unfaithful 1934
Genre: Drama
Director: Vladislav Vancura
Writer: Karel Nový, Ivan Olbracht, Vladislav Vancura
Cast: Hana Maria Pravda
Released: 02 Mar 1934
Runtime: 72 min
Language: Czech, Ukrainian, Yiddish
Country: Czechoslovakia
“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).
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Internet Movie Database
5.8/10
