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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

 

 

Written and Directed by Jaromil Jires

Czechoslovakia 1970 / Fantasy / Coming-of-Age / Adventure / 85 min / Color / Monaural / 1.33: 1  Aspect Ratio / PAL / In  Czech with Optional English Subtitles



Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anyzková, Petr Kopriva, Jiri Prymek, Jan Klusak .

Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) is the young teenage girl who lives with her grandmother. She feels the first stirring of sexual awareness when a carnival parade comes to town. Eagle (Petr Kopriva) is the young man who presents her with a pair of magic earrings. Her fantasy adventures begin when she imagines she is the daughter of a bishop with a hideous visage. Her grandmother becomes a vampire. She pretends to be dead when a priest tries to rape her by swallowing one of the earrings. The line between dreams and reality is blurred in this surreal psychological fantasy.

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