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Martyrs of Love

1 hr. 11 min. | Drama | N/A

This romance is comprised of three tales representing different aspects of love: temptation, dreams and adventure. In the first, an introverted clerk takes his savings to paint the town red and winds up with a woman in his bed. In the second, a waitress on a train dreams of being a maid pursuing a singer. In the final tale, an orphan is invited to a garden party where he is treated like an old friend by the wealthy guests.

Jan Němec

Jan Němec

Jan Němec was born in Prague in 1936. He was a part of a group of students to emerge from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) straight into an occupied Czechoslovakia. In response, the Czechoslovak New Wave was born. He presented his first feature and vision of the Holocaust in Diamonds of the Night (1965). In the West, one of  director’s best known films is Report on the Party and the Guests (1966), a controversial, unflinching satire of communist ideals versus brutal reality. Later he created Martyrs of Love (1966), documentaries Oratorio for Prague (1968) and Late Night Talks with Mother (2001).
Languages
Czech
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Mučedníci lásky
Produced
1966: Czechia, Slovakia

Film information

Director
Jan Němec
Screenplay
Jan Němec, Ester Krumbachová
Music
Jan Klusák, Karel Mareš
Cinematography
Miroslav Ondříček
Cast
Lindsay Anderson, Jitka Cerhová, Denisa Dvoráková, Karel Gott, Ivana Karbanová
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