Beware... !
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| The screenwriters – lead actor and co-director Paľo Bielik, director Martin Frič, and Karel Steklý – worked with Shepherd's Wife (Bačova žena), a 1928 play by Ivan Stodola, but while its curtain goes down on rancor and suicide, the filmmakers gave their story of coincidental polygamy a chivalrous, forward-looking outcome. |
| Similar to his 1935 film Jánošík, Martin Frič took advantage of the national symbolism of the High Tatras embedded in Slovak culture since the 19th century to accompany the lines advocating a love of one's homeland. As an old man (Jozef Budský), retained in voiceover from the previous scene, continues to give advice to Ondrej Muranica (Paľo Bielik), anguished to have found his wife married again during the years he was thought dead, but merely went missing due to amnesia from a mining accident in the U.S., the latter begins to see hope in meeting his son Ondrej (Štefan Sliuka). The two walk off into the high-noon lit Kriváň, Slovakia's most symbolic mountain, and the camera builds inspiration for patriotic sequences in future Slovak films by panning across a mountainous landscape in sync with Šimon Jurovský's stately score. |
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