“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).
Bohuslav Martinů | Original Music Composer |
Vladislav Vančura | Director |
Ladislav Kolda | Producer |
Václav Hanuš | Assistant Camera |
Ladislav Kolda | Production Manager |
Karel Nový | Screenplay |
Ivan Olbracht | Story |
Josef Zora | Sound |
Jiří Weiss | Assistant Director Trainee |
Bedřich Feuerstein | Production Design |