Mikolás en zijn broer Adam beroven reizigers voor hun tirannieke vader Kozlík. Één van hun overvallen mislukt waardoor ze met een Duitse gijzelaar komen te zitten en een gevlucht slachtoffer dat de Koning gaat waarschuwen.
In het jaar 1618 is het religieuze conflict tussen de katholieke Habsburgers en Boheemse protestanten op zijn hoogtepunt. Als de koninklijke stadhouders Jaroslav Borita en Vilém Slavata en secretaris Philip Fabricius uit het raam van de Praagse Burcht worden gegooid door tegenstanders van Koning Ferdinand II, leidt dit tot de Boheemse Opstand, geleid door Jindrich Matyás Thurn. Er ontstaat een oorlog die dertig jaar aanhoudt.
Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.
The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a colossal sweep that takes audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival. Staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, this new production is directed by Blanche McIntyre and stars Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (East Enders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd.
All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.
Set in a mountainous and thickly wooded Bohemian landscape in the 17th century, Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" (The Marksman) tells the tale of Max, a young gamekeeper. Max is in love with Agathe, daughter of the head ranger to Prince Ottokar. To win her hand, an ancient custom requires Max to prove his skill as a marksman on the morning of the wedding by shooting at any object the Prince may choose on the spur of the moment. Max is willing to do anything, absolutely anything to succeed - even at the cost of selling his soul to the demon Samiel.
Recorded live at the Zürich Opera House, 1999.
