History Film / ValerieAndHerWeekOfWonders

%% * HeroicBastard: Orlík and Valerie too, since she is the daughter of a bishop and a young nun.

%% * LukeIAmYourFather: "Her father was the Bishop." "''I was'' the Bishop!"

%% * OrphansOrdeal: Valerie. Orlík suffers from the reverse.

%% * UnexplainedRecovery: Gracián, Tchoř and Babicka all die and later mysteriously reappear alive.

%% * AnimalThemeNaming: Tchoř ("Polecat") and Orlík ("Eaglet").

%% * BrotherSisterIncest: Orlík is in love with Valerie, who admires but rejects him [[spoiler:until she kisses him in the final scene.]]
%% * BurnTheWitch: Gracián tries to have Valerie burned to death, lying that she seduced him.

%% * ComingOfAgeStory: That blatantly starts with Valerie's menarche.
%% * CorruptChurch: The film shows an uncomfortable size of corrupt churchmen and nuns.

%% * DamselInDistress: Valerie on several occasions. One some occasions she escapes using a magic pearl, alternately she is rescued by her brother.
%% * DancePartyEnding: That's not even the weirdest thing about it.

%% * DistressedDude: Orlík is rescued three times by his sister.

%% * EtherealWhiteDress: Many girls (including Valerie) wear it.

%% * EvilOldFolks: Babicka and Tchoř want to [[spoiler:drain the youth of]] Valerie and Orlík.

%% * ExploringTheEvilLair: Tchoř takes Valerie into his underground room, where she proceeds to touch everything.

%% * FlowerMotifs: The daisy with Valerie's blood sprinkled on it.

%% * TheHecateSisters: Valerie fills the Maiden role, Valerie's mother is the Matron and Babicka is the Crone. Alternatively, all the characters played by Helena Anýžová can be used as an example: rejuvenated Elsa (Maiden), Valerie's mother (Matron) and Babicka (Crone).

%% * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Babicka and Gracián are straight examples of this.

* AnimalThemeNaming: Tchoř ("Polecat") and Orlík ("Eaglet").

* ArrangedMarriage: Hedvika and her groom.
* BadBoss: Tchoř.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Orlík is in love with Valerie, who admires but rejects him [[spoiler:until she kisses him in the final scene.]]
* BurnTheWitch: Gracián tries to have Valerie burned to death, lying that she seduced him.

* ComingOfAgeStory: That blatantly starts with Valerie's menarche.
* CorruptChurch: The film shows an uncomfortable size of corrupt churchmen and nuns.
* CourtlyLove: Orlík for Valerie.
* CreepyCathedral: During the sermon.
* DamselInDistress: Valerie on several occasions. One some occasions she escapes using a magic pearl, alternately she is rescued by her brother.
* DancePartyEnding: That's not even the weirdest thing about it.
* DarkWorld: Arguably.
* DistressedDude: Orlík is rescued three times by his sister.
%%* DownTheRabbithole

* EtherealWhiteDress: Many girls (including Valerie) wear it.

* EvilMatriarch: Babicka.
* EvilOldFolks: Babicka and Tchoř want to [[spoiler:drain the youth of]] Valerie and Orlík.
* EvilRedhead: Rejuvenated Elsa
* ExploringTheEvilLair: Tchoř takes Valerie into his underground room, where she proceeds to touch everything.
* TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles
* FlowerMotifs: The daisy with Valerie's blood sprinkled on it.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls

%%* GothicHorror
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Particularly Babicka.
* TheHecateSisters: Valerie fills the Maiden role, Valerie's mother is the Matron and Babicka is the Crone. Alternatively, all the characters played by Helena Anýžová can be used as an example: rejuvenated Elsa (Maiden), Valerie's mother (Matron) and Babicka (Crone).
* HeroicBastard: Orlík and Valerie too, since she is the daughter of a bishop and a young nun.
* IncestSubtext: Well, where do we start?
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Valerie.
* LesbianVampire: Played with in case of Elsa/Babicka, inverted with Hedvika [[spoiler: as Valerie's kisses treat her vampirism.]]
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Valerie and rejuvenated Elsa.
* LongLostRelative: Tchoř and Orlík to Valerie. Subverted with Elsa since after her rejuvenation she pretends to be Valerie's cousin.
* LooksLikeOrlok: Tchoř.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Orlík is sent to steal Valerie's earrings, but returns them almost immediately out of regret.
* LukeIAmYourFather: "Her father was the Bishop." "''I was'' the Bishop!"
* MacGuffin: The two magic pearls.
* MaritalRapeLicense: Hedvika does not seem to be excited about becoming an old man's wife. Although she does say that she loves him during their first night without being too forced.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Valerie's menarche is the catalyst for her dream or journey.
%%* OminousLatinChanting

* OldManMarryingAChild: Hedvika may or may not be seventeen, but her groom is sure quite old.
* OminousPipeOrgan: In the church.
* OrphansOrdeal: Valerie. Orlík suffers from the reverse.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Tchoř and Gracián attempt to do this to Valerie.
* SceneryPorn: Worthy of a Pre-Raphaelite painting.
* SecretIdentity: Tchoř and Orlík, at various points.
* SexForSolace: Implied between Hedvika and Valerie.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Babicka and Gracián are straight examples of this.

* SinisterMinister: The sleazy Gracián and, as eventually revealed, [[spoiler: Tchoř.]] Borderlines on PedophilePriest.
* SurrealHorror: It is surreal (through editing mostly) and it is a horror.
%%* Main/{{Surrealism}}
* UndeathlyPallor: Tchoř. Conversely, Babicka is this in life but not undeath.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Gracián, Tchoř and Babicka all die and later mysteriously reappear alive.
* UnnamedParent: The parents of Orlik and Valerie.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Orlik and Valerie.
* VillainousCrush: Tchoř [[spoiler:for Valerie.]]

* WeirdnessMagnet: Valerie.
* WorldOfSymbolism

* LongLostRelative: Tchoř and Orlík to Valerie.

* DaylightHorror: Most of the movie.