The Princess with the Golden Star
Based on a folk story retold by Božena Němcová, adapted into a play by K. M. Walló, Martin Frič made in 1959 one of the most popular Czech film fairy tales.
- Princezna se zlatou hvězdou
- Czechoslovakia 1959
- 81 min.
- Přístupný
The title heroine, played by Marie Kyselková, is a bold young woman, who rejects marriage to King Kazisvět (“World wrecker”). Instead, she flees from the castle of her timid father. Princess Lada masks both her beauty and the gold star on her forehead by wearing a hood made of shabby mouse fur, and finds a job as a cook at the palace of a neighbouring monarch – the wise Prince Radovan (played by singer and occasional actor Josef Zíma). Ultimately, the prince finds his true love in the form of this wayward kitchen helper. The power-hungry Kazisvět is played by Martin Růžek, and in line with the ideology of the times, he portrays a prototypical German usurper-occupier, who is ultimately cast out of Lada’s land by ordinary folk.
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