Summary
Stage and film actor, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist Jiří Suchý has been involved in a number of film productions during his career, but the tragicomedy Nevěsta (1970) is the only film he wrote and directed. As an auteur’s film, completed shortly before the onset of the “normalisation” period, it tells the story of a naïve young girl, Zdena (Marta Vančurová in one of her first roles), who decides to fulfill a prophecy of an amateur palmist (Eugen Jegorov) and find a husband. On her “quest”, she passes through various places and meets several men (Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Dvořák, Jiří Novotný, and others), but none of them are Mr. Right… This surrealist, poetic and playful film is demonstrates Suchý’s multiple talents, but it has largely remained unnoticed by the mainstream audience.
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