Evil stepsister + love triangle + Czech fairy tale chaos = absolute unhinged cinema.
Dora, a lazy and evil woman, is in love with her servant, Hannes. Hannes, however, loves her sister-in-law, Margareta. When Dora learns about this, she vows revenge against the couple.
Production
Wild practical effects and garish fairy-tale sets.
Costume
Peak 90s Czech fantasy fashion—absolutely unhinged.
Director
Zdeněk Troška
Michaela Kuklová
Markýtka
Miroslav Šimůnek
Honza
Daniel Hůlka
Brambas
Lukáš Vaculík
Kujbaba
Vladimír Brabec
král
Sabina Laurinová
princezna Eufrozína
Miriam Kantorková
kmotřička
Vítězslav Jandák
šenkýř
Václav Vydra
starý čert
Rudolf Kubík
mladý čert
Radoslav Brzobohatý
sedlák
Dana Morávková
Dora
Milena Dvorská
Honzova matka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Zdeněk Troška was the king of Czech fairy-tale adaptations, basically their Disney but unhinged.
Based on Karel Jaromír Erben's folk poetry collection—same source material that inspired Dvořák's symphonic poems.
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