The Bartered Bride

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Release Date: 1992

Label: Standing Room Only

In a Bohemian village during Spring Festival, the beautiful Marenka is sad. She loves Jenik but her parents have promised her to another boy, Vasek, the son of the rich landowner Mícha. The marriage broker, Kecal, arrives to finalize the contract. Krusina, Marenka's father, remarks that he has always heard that Mícha has two sons, but has never met either one. He asks Kecal to tell him about both sons, but Kecal insists that Vasek is just the man for Marenka and that no one knows what has happened to Mícha 's eldest son. Marenka joins them and tells her parents that she already has a sweetheart she has promised to wed. As the square fills with villagers celebrating the festival with their traditional dances, Kecal plots to find out who Marenka's sweetheart is and to offer him money to leave her.