Director: Jaromil Jires
Writers: Jaromil Jires & Ester Krumbachová with additional dialog by Jirí Musil and based on a novel by Vítezslav Nezval
Release Year: 1970
Czech title: Valerie a týden divu
Bleed little girl, bleed.
Thirteen year old Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) – who looks like a young Britt Ekland – lives with her grandmother (Helena Anýzová) in a large house. One day, missionary / actor-player / complete weirdo Tchor-konstábl (Jirí Prýmek) appears in the town with Orlík (Petr Kopriva) – who may have already been there – and quickly becomes interested in grandmother and Valerie. There’s much more to it than that as the film unfolds like a fever dream story of incest, lesbianism, sexual-awaking, molestation, sexuality, marriage as well as vampires, weasels and religion….
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