Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
A journey into womanhood...
- Genre: Fantasy · Adventure · Drama
- Runtime: 73 min
- Released: 1970-10-16
- Czech release: 2009-03-27
- TMDB rating: 7.0 / 10 (305)
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
- Director: Jaromil Jireš
- Writer: Jaromil Jireš, Ester Krumbachová
- Music: Luboš Fišer
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Jaroslava Schallerová (sometimes credited as Jarka Shallerová) was a popular Czech film star during the 1970s. Her film debut was at the age of 13 in the Czech New Wave classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Her film career spanned the 1970s and continued intermittently into the 1990s.
Jan Klusák is a Czech composer and actor.
Karel Engel was a Czech wrestler and actor who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was an actor, known for Záhada hlavolamu (1993), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) and Lemonade Joe (1964). He died on 30 December 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Jaromil Jireš (December 10, 1935 – October 24, 2001) was a director associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. His 1963 film The Cry was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It is often described as the first film of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a movement known for its dark humor, use of non-professiona…
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